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Press Statement by the "Friends of the Development Box"

Press statement charging the U.S. and the EU ag policy as the cause of food insecurity and unemployment in the developing world. The Development Box grooup calls for specific language in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture being negotiated at the Doha Ministerial that protects farmers in the devloping world.

Agriculture Could Block Negotiations at Doha

GAZETA MERCANTIL Brasilia, 11/09/01

Anti-Globalisation Warriors Shift Their Ground

Anti-globalisation warriors shift their ground: The appetite for mass confrontations at international conferences has diminished. Alan Beattie reports By ALAN BEATTIE

WTO Agriculture, Anti-Dumping Rulings Top Concerns For Koreans

Asia Pulse DOHA, Nov 9 Korean representatives to the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Qatar said Friday that they will take an active role in agriculture and anti-dumping negotiations and do their upmost to safeguard Korean interests.

From Seattle to Doha

Newsweek By Adam Piore; With Rich Thomas in Washington, Rana Foroohar in London and Lara Santoro in Nairobi

WTO Ministers Cut Off From Reality--Might As Well Be On The Moon--Bove

Agence France Presse DOHA, Nov 9 World trade ministers meeting here are "cut off from reality" and might as well be convening on the moon, French farmer and anti-globalization hero Jose Bove declared Friday.

World Health Chief Says "High Stakes" At Play in WTO Declaration

Agence France Presse GENEVA The director-general of the World Health Organisation on Friday urged ministers at the WTO's conference in Doha to produce a clear final declaration which ensures that poor countries have access to affordable life-saving medicines.

NGOs Fear WTO Is Resorting To Private "Green Room" Process

IATP Report from Doha NGO's have issued an action alert charging the WTO of starting use the "Green Room" process whereby select delegation are called into private meetings to negotiate trade agreements. This process marginalizes developing countries, leaving them to sign agreements that they have not been party to.

WTO Talks Open Amid Drug Clash

Los Angeles Times November 9, 2001 Friday Home Edition By WARREN VIETH Amid heightened security, trade ministers assembled today to take up the unfinished business of globalization, a task made more difficult by a range of bitter disputes, especially the one over the price poor countries must pay for patented drugs.

Nerves on Edge as Trade Talks Begin in Qatar

The Independent (London) | November 9, 2001 | Andrew Gumbel TWO YEARS after the showdown in Seattle, the World Trade Organisation appears to have thought it could insulate itself from the hordes of anti- globalisation protesters by holding its latest ministerial meeting in Qatar, a Gulf state with a suitably zero-tolerance approach to civil disobedience.

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