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Debate Intensifies Over Qatar As WTO Venue

Agence France Presse October 17, 2001 Wednesday 9:32 AM Eastern Time : APEC officials BY RACHEL MORARJEE SHANGHAI, Oct 17 Debate among Pacific Rim countries intensified Wednesday over whether to move a World Trade Organisation meeting from Qatar next month owing to security fears arising from the US attacks on Afghanistan.

More Indications that W.T.O. Will Move Talks to Singapore

New York Times | October 17, 2001 | By ELIZABETH OLSON GENEVA - Indications are growing quite strong that the World Trade Organization's conference in November, meant to start a new round of global trade talks and formally accept China as a member, will be relocated to Singapore from Doha, Qatar, because of fears about security in the Middle East.

WTO Meeting to Remain in Qatar

By NAOMI KOPPEL Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) - The World Trade Organization (news - web sites) said Tuesday it was going ahead with a meeting of ministers in Qatar despite suggestions to move it to Singapore for security reasons.

""New Development Agenda"" in Doha?

IPS | By Kalinga Seneviratne | October 15, 2001 SINGAPORE - The fourth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) scheduled next month in Doha may end up being described as setting a 'new development agenda' and not just yet another 'new round' of trade talks.

WTO Ministers Close Rank on New ""Development"" Round

Washington Trade Daily | Volume 10, Number 206, pt 1 | October 15, 2001 Singapore - In a dramatic display of solidarity, the United States and the European Union yesterday closed ranks to persuade 19 developing and other industrial countries to join negotiations on a new "development and growth agenda" (WTD, 10/12/01).

EU Environmental Pitch Fails to Garner New Support in WTO

Inside US Trade | October 12, 2001 Two confidential option papers prepared by the European Union show that the Commission is trying to insert environmental issues back into the World Trade Organization's negotiating agenda by offering to delay the start of actual negotiations and by offering to include issues relevant to developing countries, according to the copies reprinted below.

A ""Crisis Of Legitimacy"" Facing World Trade Meeting

By Gustavo Capdevila Inter Press Service October 10, 2001 GENEVA, A group of prominent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in industrialized countries sent a sharply worded letter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) charging that it "is facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy" which requires comprehensive institutional reforms.
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