Brussels/Geneva, 26/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The choice - still provisional - of Qatar as the host for the next ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (5-9 November 2001) raises very heated reactions among the representatives of civil society, which fear possible heavy handed reaction from the Doha regime against the "Seattle" type demonstrations.
It is "scandalous", say "Friends of the Earth" and "Human Rights Watch, American section", suspecting that the intention is to...