A Bitter Pill for the WTO and Activists to Swallow

GENEVA, Jul 29 (IPS) - WTO authorities played down the significance of the new stalemate in the Doha Round of talks and the threat hanging over the sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong. But civil society organisations see the multilateral trade system's latest fiasco in a much more serious light.

Amina Mohamed, chair of the WTO General Council and currently the multilateral trade organisation's top authority, said