Clock ticks on world trade talks

Ministers from OECD countries around the world met in Paris, May 2005, hoping to salvage global trade talks. They were intended to lay the foundations for agreement on an outline deal by July, ahead of a full-scale WTO summit in December 2005 in Hong Kong.

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European Commission: DG Trade: Press Release, 3.5.05: The Doha Development Agenda: Commissioners Mandelson and Fischer Boel to take part in WTO trade talks, Paris, 3- 4 May 2005 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/newround/doha_da/pr030505_en.htm

OECD: Press Release, 4.5.05: OECD Ministers reaffirm Millennium and Monterrey development commitments http://www.oecd.org/document/46/0,3343,en_21571361_44315115_34838958_1_1_1_1,00.html

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