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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8841

4 December 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade/mercosur
Brazil does not foresee conclusion of EU-Mercosur agreement until second term 2006

Brussels, 03/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - While Europeans and South Americans were meeting in Rio on 2 and 3 December at coordinator level to seek to reactivate the timetable for EU/Mercosur talks, the Brazilian government said on Thursday that it does not foresee concluding an EU-Mercosur free trade agreement before the end of the first term 2006. Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim stressed that, for his country, "discussions of the Doha Round at WTO must take primacy over bilateral trade...

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