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SOUTH BULLETIN: 12 March 2012 (Issue 59)</h4>
<h1 style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">SOUTH CENTRE SEMINAR WARNS OF EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN ON THE SOUTH</h1>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> <span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">This issue of South Bulletin (12 March 2012) focuses on several events linked to the South Centre’s Board and Council meetings and held on 31 January – 3 February 2012 in Geneva.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">The main article briefly reports on the South Centre’s Seminar on the Global Economic Downturn and Current Multilateral Negotiations, held on 2-3 February in Geneva.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Conference speakers warned that developing countries had not de-coupled from the advanced economies and would be adversely affected in different ways by the new global economic slowdown.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">This issue also gives a report on the Board and Council meetings and on the Centre’s key activities in 2011. <br>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><b>Other highlights of the Bulletin:</b></span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> • An analysis by Chakravarthi Raghavan on the current state of the WTO as developed countries move from the old bicycle theory to a new “snowball approach” to get their ideas accepted; </span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">• Why plurilateral negotiations on services are neither good for developing countries nor the WTO;</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">• African Union Summit takes a step towards an Africa-wide FTA and integration;</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">• BASIC Ministers affirm that the Durban Platform (on Climate Change) must be in full accordance with the equity principle in UNFCCC;</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">• Brazil – a country on the go;</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">• South Centre welcomes Ecuador as its newest member.<br>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">We hope you benefit from this issue of South Bulletin and we look forward to your feedback.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">With best wishes<br>
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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Martin Khor</span></p>
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