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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.

Indian trade minister Kamal Nath last week urged his counterparts in Africa and South America to stand tough against the United States in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations by adopting an 'aggressive strategy' for agreement on biodiversity and traditional knowledge

IT WAS meant to be the big breakthrough for Australian exporters

THE much-vaunted free trade agreement with the United States has become one-sided, with no financial benefit to Australia.

Geneva Update for 19 August 2005, titled 'IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT: Whose Ambitions for the Doha Round?'