Trade powers to meet twice in July in WTO push

Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 1:33 [IST]

GENEVA, July 17 (Reuters) Ministers from six of the leading members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will meet again twice this month as part of their push to settle the WTO's stalled Doha round, Brazil's foreign minister today said.

Celso Amorim told reporters the Group of Six -- the European Union, the United States, Brazil, India, Japan and Australia -- would meet in Geneva on July 23-24 and on July 28-29.

He was speaking after ministers from the group met at the WTO's headquarters in the city today to discuss ways of breaking the deadlock.

The head of the WTO chaired the meeting after returning from a G8 summit in Russia with backing from heads of the world's top industrialised nations to push hard for a deal.

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