Brussels, 29/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a statement separate from the one adopted by the G20 major economies in Pittsburgh (see EUROPE 9986), some 100 developing countries, led by the emerging countries that were part of the G20 (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey), representing the main negotiating groups in Geneva (G33, ACP, African Group, etc.) urge their developed partners, including the United States and the EU, to show “true engagement, flexibility and political will” to conclude the multilateral agreement on the basis of the compromise already on the WTO table, a compromise which “reflects gains and concessions” from the eight years of negotiations under the Doha Round, known as the Doha Development Agenda. This is a compromise which “a vast majority of developed and developing countries support,” the statement says, going on, “The only way to conclude in a reasonable timeframe is to finalise the existing package in transparency, openness and multilateralism”. Deploring that the commitments undertaken by the developed countries' leaders in the run-up to the G20 Summits in Washington and London and the G8 in l'Aquila “have not been translated into effective engagement” in discussions in Geneva, developing countries say, too, that, in the current compromise, they are offering “a contribution that is unprecedented in the history of the multilateral system” - their way of warning that they will not make any further concessions. (E.H./transl.rt)