Lamy calls for shared sense of urgency in the trade negotiations

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his introductory statement to the Trade Negotiations Committee on 1 May 2006, said that finding consensus in the negotiations 'remains doable, but only if a sense of urgency-which I feel is not always shared by all-starts appearing in each and every delegation' 'We must now focus our efforts on working intensively, continuously and in an effective manner on a text-based negotiating process, which is solidly anchored in Geneva', he added.

Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news06_e/tnc_dg_stat_1may06_e.htm

Statement by TNC chair Pascal Lamy (audio):
http://www.wto.org/audio/2006_05_01_tnc_dgreport.mp3

More on the TNC:
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/tnc_e.htm