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Mercosur and the European Union decided in Brussels to resume the interrupted talks.

Lamy has summoned agriculture negotiators to a meeting next Tuesday on the Doha round

Mini-ministerial meeting to be held in Paris at end of month in preparation for December's ministerial meeting in Hong Kong

Ministers reaffirmed the importance of the strategic relationship between Mercosur and the EU.

Pascal Lamy yesterday declared that the sixth ministerial meeting in Hong Kong set for mid-December remains his 'priority number one'

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'The U.S. proposal package is designed to force the world to accept as its own the U.S. strategy of abandoning impoverished nations and peoples, rejecting international law, privileging ruthless market forces over any attempted regulation, sidelining the role of international institutions except for the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, and weakening, perhaps fatally, the United Nations itself.'

Response to the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Pakistan (8-10 September 2005)

In a clear message to the US and other developed countries, India today categorically said it would not accept any outcome without movement on services at the WTO trade negotiations.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have reached agreement on the terms under which U.S. banks and other service providers will be allowed to operate in Saudi Arabia following its accession to the World Trade Organization.