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UNCTAD Commission debates trade policy, commodities, services

10 February, 2006
Developing countries put forward their positions and requests on a wide range of trade development issues at the start of this week's meeting of UNCTAD's Commission on Trade in Goods and Services and Commodities

General Council appoints new Chairs and members of an Aid for Trade Task Force

10 February, 2006
The WTO General Council on 8 February appointed Ambassador Eirik Glenne of Norway as its Chairperson for this year, replacing Ambassador Amina Mohamed of Kenya.

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G-6 to Meet This Weekend

9 February, 2006
The United States will host a meeting this weekend of senior officials and envoys of the Group-of-Six countries the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan to discuss the most difficult issues remaining in the Doha Development Agenda agricultural trade negotiations.

Tubo-charging investor sovereignty: investment agreements and corporate colonialism

9 February, 2006
For corporate investors, the body of project and financial law is a frontier against which they continually aim to advance. Reconstruction of a country

Furore at Lamys Lecture

9 February, 2006
Protesters disrupted Pascal Lamy's lecture this morning at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) on East Campus.

List of Questions from the Chair on Agriculture for WTO negotiations

9 February, 2006
a link to documents for the next agriculture week 13-17 February 2006.

Starting to Write a Text on Agriculture

9 February, 2006
Doha Development Agenda agriculture trade negotiations Chairman Crawford Falconer yesterday began his first attempt to build a text for negotiating modalities by posing questions to members on the central elements of a final agreement trade-distorting domestic support, export competition and market access

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Mandelson calls for African countries to raise their voice in Doha talks

8 February, 2006
Speaking today in Port Louis, Mauritius to an audience of African Trade Ministers, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has called on ACP and G90 developing countries to play a key role in the ongoing DDA trade negotiations.

More Cooperation Needed in the DDA

8 February, 2006
Outgoing World Trade Organization General Council Chair Amina Mohamed of Kenya has called on members to be 'sensitive to each other without being indifferent' if a balanced outcome in the Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations is to be achieved

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US wins WTO backing in war with Europe over GM food

7 February, 2006
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