Brussels, 30/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - According to the Financial Times and diplomatic sources in Geneva, European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick will be meeting for dinner in London on Friday with their Brazilian, South African, Mexican and Kenyan counterparts. The aim of the 'private meeting', organised by Zoellick, is to strike a common position among 'key' WTO countries in order to solve the deadlock on the Doha Development Agenda by the end of June. Ministers of industrialised and developing WTO countries present in Cancun in 2003 will be meeting in Paris on 14 May, on the fringes of an OECD meting. Meetings will also take place in Senegal in May (among less advanced countries) and in Rwanda (Southern African countries). In Geneva on Thursday, the President of the WTO General Council, Shotaro Oshima said he was expecting from all the meeting some high level contributions on key issues in order to formulate guidelines by the end of May which can dissolve the deadlock. He said they should concentrate on crucial issues, namely farming, opening markets to non-agricultural products, cotton and the 'Singapore issues' (facilitating customs formalities, public tender, competition and investment). Since the breakdown of talks in Cancun, the EU has shown itself willing to deal with each of the Singapore issues separately. WTO countries failed to agree last week, however, on the issue of agricultural markets. Various observers believe that if agreement has not been reached on the key issues by July, then the trade round is destined for failure, because there will be a new European Commission and presidential elections in the United States in the autumn.