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Japan says Asian states back quick Doha revival
KUALA LUMPUR - Asian countries on Thursday threw their support behind Japan’s call to revive stalled global trade talks by November, a Japanese trade official said.
At a meeting in Malaysia, trade ministers from the 10-member ASEAN grouping, China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India shared the Japanese view that the talks should be resumed soon, the official said.
The Doha round of talks were suspended last month.
“We think we got quite good support on this initiative ... and that we should be aiming at the latest for November for the resumption of the negotiation itself,” said Shigehiro Tanaka, Japan’s top official on World Trade Organisation affairs.
WTO chief Pascal Lamy was forced to suspend the free trade talks after the major powers failed to broker a deal on agriculture, which has turned out to be the most difficult area of negotiations.
The United States refused further concessions in subsidy cuts, saying the European Union and big developing countries were not offering enough compensation in the way of increased access to their farm markets for US goods.
US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair had recently agreed to make “one final effort” to get the talks back on track.
The Doha round was launched in late 2001 with the aim of boosting economic growth and lifting millions out of poverty. But it struggled from the start and was already well behind schedule when talks collapsed.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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