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| | AGRICULTURE:COSTA RICA PROPOSES ACTION ON TROPICAL PRODUCTS |
 | | They are set to meet in a regular session of the Committee on Agriculture (CoA) on 18 October, wrapping up their "agriculture week" with a formal meeting of the CoA special (negotiating) session on Friday, 19 November. |
 | | Among other developments in the informal meetings, Costa Rica, on behalf of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, presented a proposal on tropical products and products providing an alternative to illicit narcotic crops. |
 | | Therefore, the proposal stresses that it is time to deliver on this mandate, which will also help Members operationalise of the development dimension of the Doha Round. |
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