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July 21st, 2006

Developing countries on Doha talks at the G8 Summit

20 July, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service at WTO and Trade Issues
No one who was not there seems to know what actually happened at the G8 Summit leaders' meeting with the leaders of five developing countries in the lunchtime "outreach working lunch" at St Petersburg on Monday (17 July).

July 19th

Manmohan has `not lost hope' about Doha Round

18 July, 2006
The Hindu
Fresh from his discussions at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh provided a cautiously optimistic insight into the prospects of the deadlocked WTO negotiations.

July 18th

Leaders vow to unblock Doha talks

17 July, 2006
Financial Times
World leaders

July 17th

G8 leaders call on WTO head to push for end to Doha talks within months

16 July, 2006
Alex Nicholson, Canadian Press
Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries on Sunday recommended a two-week extension for a deadline aimed at breaking the impasse over long-stalled global trade negotiations.

G8 to give trade a push

16 July, 2006
By Caren Bohan and David Clarke, SwissInfo
Group of Eight leaders met key developing countries on Monday to give a push to world trade talks at a big-power summit strained by divisions over the Middle East.

G-6 Agrees To Meet Twice In July After Push From G-8 Leaders

16 July, 2006
Inside U.S. Trade
Trade ministers from the U.S. and five other World Trade Organization members have agreed at a meeting today (July 17) to gather again twice this month in Geneva in an effort to push the struggling WTO talks forward.

Numsa plan marches on US and EU embassies over tariffs reductions

16 July, 2006
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa)
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is to stage countrywide general strikes in August to halt removal of industrial tariffs which are expected to open up markets and destroy more jobs and industries.

G8 leaders face packed agenda on summit's last day

16 July, 2006
By Michael Steen, Reuters
Leaders of the major world powers face a packed agenda including trade talks and a possible statement on world oil prices on Monday, the last day of a G8 summit overshadowed by violence in the Middle East.

July 14th

G8: no mandate to take world trade negotiations forward; Development and Environment NGOs as well as trade unions warn of de-industrialization and environmental destruction as a result of cuts in industrial tariffs

13 July, 2006
WEED, Oxfam Germany, Greenpeace, Protestant Development Service
Leading industrial powers will aim to move forward the global trade negotiations, which failed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in June, when they meet at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, from tomorrow. Development and environment groups as well as trade unions condemn this as illegitimate.

Schwabb expresses hope for Doha despite daunting challenges

13 July, 2006
Inside US Trade
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab last Friday (July 7) insisted the only Doha deal the U.S. will accept is an ambitious one, and stressed that this requires a definition of how sensitive agriculture products will be treated so that members will know exactly how much market access they are to get.