Article: Southeast Asia Group to Urge Friendliness to Developing Nations at WTO Talks.

By Takehiko Kajita, Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 31--PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are to restate their desire next week for developing countries' needs and concerns to be fully taken into account when pushing for global market-opening negotiations, a draft of their joint statement showed Sunday.

While expressing concern about the stalemate in the trade liberalization talks under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the ministers are also likely to do their part to help bring the talks to a successful conclusion by the deadline of Jan. 1, ...

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