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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9269
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/doha

Union criticised by Australian Prime Minister John Howard for "certain indifference", and by Susan Schwab for "lack of ambition"

Brussels, 20/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - The debate is hotting up about the absence of Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson from the meeting of the Cairns Group in Australia, to seek to relaunch the Doha Round (EUROPE 9268). On Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister John Howard criticised the EU having shown a "certain amount of indifference" by failing to send its top negotiator to Cairns, where the Union is represented by its ambassador to the WTO, Carlo Trojan. "The facts speak for themselves....

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