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/ 29 January 2011
World leaders appealed on Friday for all nations to make concessions and reach a deal on long-running trade talks by the end of this year.
Libya has ordered the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, to close its operations there, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
G20 leaders must give their negotiators more flexibility to ensure they can actually reach a global trade deal, the head of the WTO said on Monday.
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/ 4 September 2009
The US believes WTO members must work hard to fill in the remaining gaps to clinch a Doha deal, the top US trade official said on Friday.
The World Health Organisation declared an influenza pandemic on Thursday and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle.
Emerging countries such as China, India, Brazil and South Africa must open their markets to secure a new global trade deal, the US said on Wednesday.
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/ 31 January 2009
Trade ministers from two dozen countries met in the Swiss ski resort of Davos on Saturday amid fears that protectionism is increasing.
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/ 7 December 2008
World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy urged member nations to show flexibility and narrow their remaining differences on
World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks, which collapsed last month, need to resume soon to build on existing compromises, the WTO farm mediator says.
Ministers hailed an emerging trade deal on Friday, as compromise proposals revitalised deadlocked talks at the World Trade Organisation.