Monday, September 15, 2003

Medios Independientes Cancun: newswire/758

Medios Independientes Cancun: newswire/758: "Developing countries, who make up the majority of the membership of the WTO, formed an alliance and walked out of the fifth ministerial meeting Sunday afternoon. Kenyan delegate George Odour Ongwen, who spoke on behalf of the alliance, announced that there was no consensus and that the ministerial had come to an end.

Rafidah Aziz, Malaysia's trade minister, blamed the failure on the refusal of rich countries to heed the objections of the developing world.
'They kept demanding things that others couldn't deliver,' she said.

Green room meetings were called in the early afternoon, where rich countries sought to divide the unprecedented alliance of developing countries that have banded together under the banner of fair agricultural trade."

Heard a little about this, but this is one of those news stories you have to look up to get a decent picture of.

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