Monday, May 01, 2006

WTO Director-General PASCAL LAMY CALLS FOR “SHARED SENSE OF URGENCY” IN THE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his introductory statement to the TradeNegotiations Committee on 1 May 2006, said that finding consensus in thenegotiations “remains doable, but only if a sense of urgency—which I feelis not always shared by all—starts appearing in each and every delegation”“We must now focus our efforts on working intensively, continuously andin an effective manner on a text-based negotiating process, which issolidly anchored in Geneva”, he added.
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