Brussels, 19/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - A few days after giving up on the idea of convening a ministerial meeting in Geneva to endorse a compromise on the liberalisation of trade in farm and industrial products/NAMA (see EUROPE 9804), World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy told the Trade Negotiations Committee of Member States' ambassadors on Wednesday 17 December 2008 that concluding the Doha Round should remain the main objective for 2009, but should form part of a bigger WTO work programme. He noted disappointment across the board at the failure to conclude a deal that was so close to hand and urged nations to get back to work immediately in all the negotiating groups at the start of the new year, including the farm and NAMA groups, and more general WTO activity like surveillance of trade measures connected with the financial crisis, financing trade and trade aid. (E.H. trans fl)