WTO CHIEF PASCAL LAMY PRESSER IN PARIS
The head of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, gestures during his speech in Paris December 6, 2006. Lamy said that the US Democrat Party's victory in mid-term elections does not spell doom for the Doha round of global trade talks. (UPI Photo/Eco Clement)
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BANGKOK, June 30 (UPI) -- A growing number of nations, including India and China, have cut food exports as hunger worsens in poor, food-importing countries, The New York Times reports.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The global economy is under new management, if those somewhat battered institutions the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund may be said to play such a managerial role.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Uganda will coordinate the World Trade Organization's African effort to advance talks to lower trade barriers, a Ugandan official said Thursday.
HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization has formally invited Vietnam to join the global body.
SYDNEY, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who is hosting World Trade Organization trade talks, and the head of the WTO, are predicting success.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- The White House denied accusations Monday by the European Union that Washington killed the world free trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. Earlier Monday the head of the World Trade Organization suspended future meetings of the Doha round of trade t
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization's effort for a global free trade deal appeared dead in Geneva, Switzerland, with African cotton farmers at greatest risk. After 14 hours of negotiations Sunday, talks reconvened Monday, only to collapse again. That is when WTO
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The latest report on international commerce from Switzerland's World Trade Organization says rich nation subsidies hurt global wealth creation.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 17 (UPI) -- Leaders from five developing countries and the World Trade Organization joined Group of Eight leaders in Russia to advance talks on liberalizing trade.
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 3 (UPI) -- Failed weekend talks on the World Trade Organization's Doha treaty have threatened the entire future of the anti-poverty measure, the WTO's chief says.
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