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<h4 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">3 May 2010</h4>
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<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif" dir="ltr">SOUTH BULLETIN: 3 May 2010 (Issue 46) </h4>
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<h2 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">WTO’S DOHA TALKS FACING A LONG DRIFT<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16pt" lang="EN-GB"><b></b></span></h2>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">This issue of South Bulletin focuses on the WTO’s Doha negotiations. The Doha talks have missed many deadlines. The latest deadline is 2010, but it will most likely also be missed.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">The Bulletin gives a brief report on the Stocktaking Exercise held at the WTO at the end of March. It was supposed to catalyse movement in the talks but instead became an occasion to confirm that there was nothing new in the impasse.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Another article analyses the “rise and decline” of the Doha talks, tracing the history from its controversial start in 2001 to the present impasse. On the way, the Doha programme lost its development goal and instead became an opportunity for developed countries to pressurise developing countries to open up their markets.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">The Bulletin highlights the views of many developing countries and their groupings (including the G20, G33, LDCs, Africa Group, Arab Group, China and Bolivia) on the state of the Doha talks, as presented at the WTO.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">It carries the statement by South Africa on what went wrong and how to break the impasse, and a detailed statement by India on the various topics of Doha and why “a few developing countries cannot be the bankers of the Round.”</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">The issue of “Special Safeguard Mechanism” to promote the interests of developing countries’ small farmers is also analysed.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Finally the Bulletin has two other articles – on how to remove the deflationary bias in the global financial system, and on the launching of a new developing-country grouping (the Development Agenda Group) to promote development goals in intellectual property at the WIPO.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">We hope you enjoy and benefit from this issue of the South Bulletin, and we would like to hear from our readers on your views.</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">With best wishes</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Martin Khor</h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Executive Director, </h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">You can access the whole Bulletin by <a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1273%3Asb46&catid=79%3Asouth-bulletin-reflections-and-foresights&Itemid=106&lang=en" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. </h4>
<h4 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">You can also access the individual articles below:</h4>
<h3 style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">CONTENTS </h3>
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<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1274%3Asb46a1&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Long Stalemate Ahead for WTO Talks</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1275%3Asb46a2&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">The Rise & Decline of the WTO’s Doha Talks</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1276%3Asb46a3&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">How to Break the Impasse of Doha Round </a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1277%3Asb46a4&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">India: “A Few Developing Countries Cannot Be the Bankers of the Round”</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1278%3Asb46a5&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Bolivia: Democratic Process & Development Content Are Vital</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1279%3Asb46a6&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">LDCs: Give Us An Early Doha Harvest</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1280%3Asb46a7&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Africa: Priorities Are Early Harvest & Cotton </a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1281%3Asb46a8&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">G20: Balance in Agriculture Draft Must Be Respected</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1282%3Asb46a9&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">G33: Technical Discussions Should Continue</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1283%3Asb46a10&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Arab Group: Keep To The Development Mandate</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1284%3Asb46a11&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">China’s Statement at the WTO</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1285%3Asb46a12&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Why the SSM Became A Major Issue at WTO</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1286%3Asb46a13&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Removing the Deflationary Bias In the International Financial Architecture</a></li>
<li style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px"><a href="http://www.southcentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1287%3Asb46a14&catid=144%3Asouth-bulletin-individual-articles&Itemid=287&lang=en" target="_blank">Developing Countries Launch New Group at WIPO to Implement the Development Agenda</a></li>
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