Archive - May 5, 2006

Date

Chair's Reference Paper on Special Products

4 May, 2006
Carin Smaller
Link to the Chair's reference paper on Special Products.

Positions and problems become clearer as WTO talks set to intensify

4 May, 2006
Martin Khor, Geneva, 2 May 2006
The WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 1 May and statements made by some Trade Ministers visiting the WTO have further clarified positions of some key members and groupings and some of the major differences among them that need to be resolved if the Doha talks are to progress fast enough.

Don't make bacon out of us, say developing countries at TNC meeting

4 May, 2006
Martin Khor, Geneva, 1 May 2006
Several developing countries and their groupings presented their assessments of the state of the Doha negotiations as the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee met on Monday 1 May.

No WTO deal better than a bad deal, says Indian Minister

4 May, 2006
Kanaga Raja, Geneva, 25 April 2006
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath stressed on 25 April in Geneva that the current WTO talks must not violate cardinal development principles.