02/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - On 24 May, the WTO director general, Pascal Lamy, appealed to the US and India, which are pitted against each other over the question of the special safeguard mechanism for agriculture in developing countries (a key chapter on which the July 2008 ministerial fell apart, resulting in the blockage of multilateral negotiations), to rapidly resume Doha negotiations on the liberalisation of global trade. Mr Lamy insisted that “the US and India disagree on...