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Article: WTO Ministers Adopt Agenda for New Free Trade Talks
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 14, 2001
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Ministers of the 142 World Trade Organization (WTO) members
agreed here Wednesday to launch a broadround of multilateral trade
talks on issues ranging from agriculture to services and to
environment.
At a plenary session, they adopted by acclamation a
ministerialdeclaration containing a so-called Doha development
agenda for thenew trade round.
"With the growing uncertainty and instability in the global
economy following the September 11, I'm extremely happy that we can
send out a positive message to the world," Japanese Economy, Trade
and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma told the session.
In the Ministerial Declaration, ministers stressed: "We are ...