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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8515

31 July 2003
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Calming down with regard to agriculture at WTO mini-ministerial in Montreal but most countries in South want more concessions from EU and US

Brussels, 30/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - Although no agreement was reached on the agriculture dossier on Tuesday at the informal mini-Ministerial WTO conference in Montreal (see EUROPE yesterday p 3), they did at least agree on the need to reach consensus, which according to several observers, was a success in itself. At the beginning of the meeting, several representatives for developing countries threatened to block the whole of the Doha trade round if they did not obtain significant...

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