Archive - Sep 2005 - Article

Lamy has summoned agriculture negotiators to a meeting next Tuesday on the Doha round

Mercosur and the European Union decided in Brussels to resume the interrupted talks.

Ministers reaffirmed the importance of the strategic relationship between Mercosur and the EU.

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.'