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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9714

31 July 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/doha
Differences over special safeguard mechanism cause Geneva meeting to collapse, but considerable progress has been made

Geneva, 30/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - After ten days of intense debate led by WTO Director general Pascal Lamy, the ministers of the 35 major trading powers that are the G7 (Australia, Brazil, China, India, Japan, the United States and the European Union) and the countries arguing the case of the main negotiating groups, such as Switzerland for the agricultural importers of the G10, Indonesia for the G33, countries defending special products, Kenya and Egypt for the African countries and...

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