Brussels, 04/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The preparations for the launch of a new trade round are about to enter the home strait a few weeks ahead of the ministerial meeting in Doha which will be a test of the World Trade Organisation's maturity following the failure of its previous ministerial meeting in Seattle in December 1999 which had been organised in the old format, and badly organised at that. But this week has been given over to preparatory confabulations.
It was in this atmosphere...