Press Release: EU Trade Commissioner urges African Trade Ministers: make Doha the ‘Round for Africa’; pushes for new rules on trade facilitation; calls for G8 aid for trade package

Preview of the African Union Trade Ministers' meeting on the WTO Doha Round of trade negotiations in Cairo, Egypt, on 8 June 2005 today. European Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, who was to attend the meeting intended to reinforce the EU's commitment to the development goals of the Doha Round, which he was to argue, could be the 'round for Africa'.

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African Union: Homepage http://www.africa-union.org/home/Welcome.htm

European Commission: DG Trade: Trade issues: EU&WTO: Doha Development Agenda http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/newround/doha_da/index_en.htm

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