The following is excerpted from a 26 July 2011 news item from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
WTO members acknowledged on 26 July 2011 that a package of issues selected from the Doha Round agenda for the December 2011 Ministerial Conference is not taking shape. They accepted Director-General Pascal Lamy’s call to focus on how to proceed afterwards in order to end the “paralysis” in the organization’s ability to negotiate.
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