Summit draft: Rich and developing countries seek to conclude Doha trade agreement in 2010

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the sidelines of Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh, US.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says developed nations would need to provide funding and affordable technology to developing nations in return for any commitments to fight climate change. "There is a broad, vague agreement that any agreement in which developing countries are also required to take any national action will have to be accompanied by credible action on the part of developed countries," he said at a post G-20 summit news conference Friday.

September 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Visiting trade ministers of more than 30 countries including US Trade Representative Ron Kirk and WTO director general Pascal Lamy met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here. During the meeting, the ministers held a discussion regarding various vital issues.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Top officials of the 153 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will meet in Geneva later this month after a breakthrough was reached to resume the Doha round of trade talks, India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said Friday. We have reached an agreement to intensify negotiations.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 153 members of World Trade Organisation (WTO) will resume formal talks at its headquarters in Geneva later this month to conclude the Doha round of trade talks after a breakthrough here, India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said Friday. "There has been a breakthrough in negotiations.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Key differences still remain between rich economies like the US and advanced developing nations like India, China and Brazil, said World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy here Friday. The US is ready to even clinch a final deal, but that may not exactly be the Indian view or a Chinese view or the Brazilian view, Lamy said at an interactive session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, after the conclusion of the two-day mini-ministerial meeting among representatives of some 40 key WTO members.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Top officials of the 153 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will meet in Geneva later this month after a "breakthrough" was reached to resume the Doha Round of trade talks, India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said Friday. "We have reached an agreement to intensify negotiations.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Trade Representative Ron Kirk has urged World Trade Organisation members to engage in multilateral talks, and move beyond what was agreed upon earlier in order to reach a successful conclusion of the Doha round. "More is required to get us to a successful conclusion or else Doha round would have succeeded in 2008, 2007, 2005.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing confidence that the Doha round of talks would conclude before the December 2010 deadline, Nigeria Thursday said it would however make sure that its interests were "not killed". "We want to see the rounds to conclude but not at all cost.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Trade ministers of nearly 40 countries will meet over two days here from Thursday to try and draw a roadmap that can put the derailed Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations back on track. India's Commerce Minister Anand Sharma will host the meet, which will include US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Brazilian Foreign Trade Minister Celso Amorim and the director general of the 153-member World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - US president Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cozied up to each other at a summit of the G8-G5 groupings at L'Aquila in Italy on Thursday. Leaders of the world's richest nations and major developing powers would have on the table raging issues like global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Leaders of the world's richest nations and major developing powers met on Thursday (July 9) to discuss global issues on the second day of a G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy. They are trying to arrive at a common ground on global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - The groups of rich and developing countries, including India, are likely to commit themselves to early conclusion of the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade talks under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) later Thursday. A statement in this regard to this effect is expected from the G8 and G5 countries, as well as Egypt, at the G8 Summit being held at this quake-hit Italian city, some 100 km northeast of Rome.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Even as they jointly declared to conclude the Doha development round on trade talks by 2010, the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries or G8 Thursday agreed to the demands of the emerging economies (G5) to strengthen financial regulation and reform international financial and other institutions, including the United Nations (UN). "We are committed to seek an ambitious and balanced conclusion to the Doha Development Round in 2010, consistent with its mandate, building on the progress already made, including with regard to modalities," the joint declaration said here.

July 9th, 2009 World leaders want deal in trade talksL'AQUILA, Italy — Leaders of rich and developing nations want to finally seal a long-delayed world trade deal next year and head off trade wars that could hit world economies as they struggle to emerge from recession, according to a draft of a joint declaration obtained by The Associated Press. Completing the so-called Doha round of talks has risen up the agenda due to fears that the economic crisis will lead to an upsurge in protectionist policies like the ones that helped cause the Great Depression of the 1930s.