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| | WTO Meeting in Doha, Qatar, 2001 - Global Issues |
 | | Still reeling from the experiences of Seattle, two years or so earlier, Qatar was the choice location of the meetings, because there are conveniently repressive laws about the right to demonstrate and protest. |
 | | Yet, as the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First for short) reports, "Given the experience of the last six years in the WTO, any economist knows that presenting the launch of a new round as a solution for global recession is a tactic to pressurize countries at this sensitive time. |
 | | What is clear is that, contrary to the claims of European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, Doha did not launch a "development round." The key points of the Doha Declaration, in fact, contradict the interests of the developing countries. |
| www.globalissues.org /TradeRelated/FreeTrade/Doha.asp (3712 words) |
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