Press Release: London meeting will bring key WTO negotiators together to prepare for April deadline

Preview of a meeting of trade negotiators from the EU, the US, Brazil, India, Japan and Australia in London, 10-11 March 2006, to move forward the ongoing WTO Doha negotiations. With negotiators committed to resolving some key issues by the end of April 2006, this meeting was considered to be an important chance for some of the major players to close the ground between them. The aim was to put trade at the service of development, create consensus and give impetus to the wider negotiations in Geneva.

European Commission: Memo: MEMO/06/116, London meeting brings key WTO negotiators together to prepare for April deadline, 10.3.06 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/116&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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