Brazil suggests summit to push for WTO Doha deal

Sat, 01/30/2010 - 14:25 EDT - France24.com - Business

Brazil has suggested that world leaders meet to give a final push to long-stalled negotiations for a global trade pact, World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy said Saturday."During the course of the discussion, (Brazilian Foreign Minister) Celso Amorim put this option on the table," said the director-general of the WTO."Nobody said no, but we all said during the course of the discussion that if that was to happen, what remains to be done -- which is a list of 12-13 fairly technical questions -- will need to be simplified," he added.

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