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Article: The Doha Countdown.(MEMORANDUM)(World Trade Organization's Doha Round )
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- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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TO: Pascal Lamy, Director-General World Trade Organization
FROM: Bruce Stokes
RE: The Doha Countdown
You have been in office for less than a year, but it must seem like an eternity. Trade negotiators have missed deadline after deadline in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, launched in 2001 with the goal of removing most of the remaining barriers to free trade. Last December's meeting in Hong Kong--a gathering of trade ministers from the 149 World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations--was an opportunity to make serious headway. Unfortunately, the trade officials accomplished little. During the six-day meeting, protesters in the ...