Brussels, 02/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - G4 trade ministers (EU, USA, Brazil and India) will be meeting in Paris on 17-18 May to seek to close the gap in their standpoints on arrangements for the liberalisation of trade in agricultural products. Diplomatic sources say the meeting is to be preceded by a conclave enlarged to several trade ministers on the sidelines of the annual OECD ministerial meeting in the French capital on 14-15 May. European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and India's Trade Minister Kamal Nath are then expected to gather in London, on 10 June, and then during the week of 14-19 June in a place still to be determined. Japan and Australia are seeking, in parallel, to organise a meeting of the G6 around 23 May in Tokyo, but this project may not come to anything. The trade ministers of Japan, Akira Amari, and Australia, Warren Truss, are nonetheless expected to be invited to join their counterparts in Paris and London. (eh)