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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9093

20 December 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/hong kong conference
Last minute consensus allows consolidation of 2004 framework agreement and puts Doha Round back on track - Developing world gets date for end of export subsidies, but “development package” below expectations

Hong Kong, 19/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - Under pressure from numerous and sometimes violent protest demonstrations, and after six days of intense negotiations, 450 meetings and almost 2000 consultations with facilitators dispatched by Director General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, to help protagonists find common ground, the Trade Ministers of the 150 member countries of the WTO finally managed, on Sunday evening, to reach a compromise on a consolidated text, strengthening the framework agreement...

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