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"Mr President, I believe that trade reduces poverty, empowers women and provides opportunities for our young people. We live in a globalised world and our citizens and consumers want the barriers to trade removed. It is therefore difficult to hide my disappointment that we have, once again, failed to make progress within the WTO ahead of the 10th ministerial meeting next month. It appears that this meeting will be something of a damp squib, with a real danger that the parties will not even manage to produce a joint statement following the discussions in Nairobi.
It is clear that the Doha Development Agenda has failed, yet somehow we must press ahead with the multilateral agenda and the important issues contained within it. As the Commissioner mentioned, agricultural issues continue to be the most difficult problems to solve when it comes to international trade agreements. Yet it is important to recognise some of the other ambitions that Doha was looking to meet, such as efforts towards making it easier for developing countries to gain access to the international trading market, in turn providing real opportunities for economic development.
Instead, we have to make progress in areas that we are able to agree upon – but it looks likely that this will have to come under the framework of a different agreement. So we need a new reinvigorated agenda at the WTO level – one which is not associated with the failures of the past and which can build from the bottom up so that we may look upon the WTO as an organisation that works in the interests of its members. Until then, parties will be forced to work at the bilateral and plurilateral levels, which will be essential to maintain growth and jobs in this globalised world. Within this, the EU must use the influence that it has so that we can push this multilateral agenda forward to achieve real success for all."@en1
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