World Trade Organization

The Key To A Breakthrough On Trade And Poverty; Cotton

The International Herald Tribune | By Anwarul K. Chowdhury | March 26, 2004

US, EU Agriculture Talks Should Restart

Associated Press Online | By JONATHAN FOWLER | March 25, 2004 Governments seeking to breathe life into stalled agriculture talks at the World Trade Organization should aim by the summer to agree on a framework for a deal, trade officials said Thursday.

US Calls For Farming Trade Swap With Poor Countries

Agence France Presse | March 25, 2004 The United States on Thursday urged developing countries to open up their markets to agricultural imports in exchange for cuts in subsidies Washington pays to US farmers.

Genetically Modified Organisms At Centre Of Major WTO Dispute

THE LAWYERS WEEKLY | By John W. Boscariol and Orlando E. Silva | March 26, 2004 Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the subject of a long-simmering quarrel between the United States and the European Union, are now at the centre of a major trade dispute at the World Trade Organization.

UN AIDS Chief Not Optimistic About Vaccine Prospects

Agence France Presse | March 22, 2004 An HIV vaccine is not likely to be developed in the next decade, the head of the UN's AIDS prevention program said Monday, adding that any breakthrough would be the result of a long process of trial and error.

Europe, Central Asia Countries Pledge "Universal Access"To HIV/AIDS Treatment By 2005

AIDS Vaccine Week | March 22, 2004 Citing a health crisis "of unprecedented proportions," 55 European and Central Asian nations vowed to halt the fast-spreading virus that causes AIDS, agreeing on an ambitious agenda of providing increased and improved treatment and prevention.

EU Ready To Discuss Elimination Of Agricultural Export Subsdies: Fischler

Agence France Presse | March 22, 2004 The European Union is prepared to discuss the elimination of agricultural export subsidies on all products, European Union agriculture minister Franz Fischler said here Monday. Fischler recalled that the EU last year asked developing countries to provide a list of specific products on which they wanted to see the subsidies scrapped.