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""New Development Agenda"" in Doha?

IPS | By Kalinga Seneviratne | October 15, 2001 SINGAPORE - The fourth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) scheduled next month in Doha may end up being described as setting a 'new development agenda' and not just yet another 'new round' of trade talks.

WTO Ministers Close Rank on New ""Development"" Round

Washington Trade Daily | Volume 10, Number 206, pt 1 | October 15, 2001 Singapore - In a dramatic display of solidarity, the United States and the European Union yesterday closed ranks to persuade 19 developing and other industrial countries to join negotiations on a new "development and growth agenda" (WTD, 10/12/01).

EU Environmental Pitch Fails to Garner New Support in WTO

Inside US Trade | October 12, 2001 Two confidential option papers prepared by the European Union show that the Commission is trying to insert environmental issues back into the World Trade Organization's negotiating agenda by offering to delay the start of actual negotiations and by offering to include issues relevant to developing countries, according to the copies reprinted below.

A ""Crisis Of Legitimacy"" Facing World Trade Meeting

By Gustavo Capdevila Inter Press Service October 10, 2001 GENEVA, A group of prominent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in industrialized countries sent a sharply worded letter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) charging that it "is facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy" which requires comprehensive institutional reforms.

World Trade Talks in Jeopardy

The Guardian | Charlotte Denny | October 10, 2001 The European Union and the United States are locked in a bitter dispute with developing countries which could threaten the launch of a new round of global trade talks next month in Qatar.
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