Article: EU/CHINA: BEIJING WTO TALKS STALL.

This was the second round of negotiations between the Chinese team, led by Long Yongtu, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, and the Commission's 15-strong team, headed by Hans-Friedrich Beseler, Director-General for Trade. European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy had cleared his agenda for the end of the week, and signalled that if there was further progress in the negotiations, he was ready to fly to Beijing to tie up the deal. "The circumstances for him to get on a plan do not exist at the moment", a spokesman for Mr Lamy said. "Progress was made throughout the talks, but it was not enough progress. It is fair to say we have gone as far as we could ...

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