Brussels, 11/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - As the next meeting of chief negotiators for the G-4 (EU, USA, Brazil and India) is being prepared in Paris for 17 and 18 May, on the sidelines of the ministerial OECD meeting (14-15 May), WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said on Thursday, when speaking on the fringe of a meeting of the WTO General Council, that the gap was now closing between American and European positions over the Doha talks on agriculture. “There are fewer differences, but the question is that of knowing whether this trend is sufficiently rapid”, he said one week after the first version of the proposals put by the chairman of the farm talks committee, Crawford Falconer (EUROPE 9417, ,9420 and 9422). Lamy welcomed the text that “looks like a turning point” in talks. The document has, he said, managed to make member countries reasonably displeased, which is necessary before moving on to the next phase, that is, convergence”. (eh)