His attendance at the Doha meeting is a sign of how seriously the French are taking the issue. |
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The bottom line to this week's two-step is that Zoellick and Lamy have a long road to walk before they get back to Doha. |
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I also thank the youth center in Doha, which respects freethinkers and supports them. |
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His first move will be to inject energy into the round of global trade negotiations that was launched last November in Doha, Qatar. |
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One of the aims of the Doha trade round was to provide more benefits to developing countries. |
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A new round of global trade negotiations is moving closer to being launched, as the six-day ministerial meeting in Doha draws to a close. |
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This fact was underscored by the failure of the recent climate talks in Doha to achieve any substantive deal. |
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Despite eventual wearing down, most describe a remarkable coherence and unity among groupings of DCs, leading to and throughout the Doha process. |
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Its image will contribute to build the examplary face of a contemporaneous and modern City such as Doha is. |
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Takeshi Okada's team sealed their ticket first by edging Uzbekistan, before the Socceroos joined them courtesy of a goalless draw in Doha. |
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You know, from Doha, from Central Command, it was a convenient dateline to wrap the big picture but without all the different elements, it would have been absolutely hopeless. |
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Nonetheless, the developments that have occurred since the Doha Ministerial Meeting give grounds for serious concern. |
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The wind is shifting, especially concerning the Doha Talks that, auspiciously, are no longer seen as the only solution... Far from it. |
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The Doha Development Round must not lead to the deindustrialization of the developing world or aggravate present international imbalances. |
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The Doha Round has been called the development round1 and everyone came to believe that clinching a deal would solve everything. |
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The 2003 reform and the 'health check' due in 2008 were and will be designed taking account of future agreement in the Doha round. |
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But for this hope to be realized, all here present must remain faithful to the promises and commitments made to the poor in Doha. |
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The Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting in December 2005 will be a crucial staging post in the Doha Round. |
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The Doha Centre has given financial help to Mr M, his wife and two children to enable them to set up home in a safer country. |
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A second aspect of Aid for Trade in the context of the Doha round is the important effect it can have as a redistributive mechanism. |
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Even though the G4's failure is plain to see and optimism no longer seems appropriate, virtually no one has written Doha off once and for all. |
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Talks are taking place alongside the Doha Round negotiations, the ups and downs of which slow down the EPAs that nobody really wants. |
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The breakdown of the G4 talks in Potsdam Germany has put an end to WTO hopes of giving new impetus to the Doha Round. |
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After the G4 failure last month in Potsdam, two feelings have emerged with regard to the future of the Doha Round. |
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Meanwhile, semi-official talks are ongoing in Doha, Qatar, where the Taliban maintains an office that officially never opened. |
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As a sign of his objection, he summarily withdrew his ambassador from Doha earlier this month. |
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If the Doha Development Agenda is to be faithful to its mission, WTO must be solicitous about the needs of African countries. |
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For me, it was a fun excuse to tour the real Doha since I was already in the neighborhood. |
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These proposals, which aim to jump-start the Doha Round negotiations, will lead to total trade deregulation. |
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Ahead of the seif push, in hopes of staying relevant, the SNC traveled to Doha to make its own attempt at becoming more inclusive. |
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As a result, the conclusion of the Doha cycle should be weighed up wisely and thought out fully. |
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In 2011, State Department officials held a series of meetings with Taliban leaders in Doha. |
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Make or break negotiations to salvage the Doha round of world trade talks have ended in failure. |
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The sequence to peace, officials said, was supposed to begin with the Taliban opening a representative office in Doha first. |
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Revenue is generated from the sale of crude oil, according to Luay al-Khatteeb, an energy expert at the Brookings Doha Center. |
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Another air base that could be used for these operations is Al-Udeid, west of Doha, Qatar. |
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Answering this question seems to represent the Holy Grail for international decision-makers since the 2001 launch of the Doha Round. |
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Here in Doha more than 80 countries came together and negotiated in mass. |
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All WTO members shared a responsibility in the current Doha Round and should contribute according to their means. |
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A few hours earlier Sebastian Coe, who is hoping to become the IAAF's president, had made a stiffer, more formal statement in Doha. |
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Successfully completing the round is an entirely different matter. The Doha launch was almost scuttled by India. |
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There are discussions about an opposition meeting after the SNC general assembly in Doha. |
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This information about Doha in Qatar is designed to provide information to the world community about the time in Doha. |
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I want to say again that we are ready to negotiate constructively on the basis of the Doha agenda to open markets further. |
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It was essential that the Doha Cycle put an end to the rich countries' subsidies for their agricultural sector. |
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But more than that, Doha offers a way to manage globalisation in a responsible manner. |
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I welcome the announcement in Doha of a comprehensive agreement to end the crisis in Lebanon. |
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The stated purpose of the Doha Round of development and not aid, appeared to be somewhat glossed over. |
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The Doha Round has thus once again reached a decisive moment, the outcome of which remains uncertain. |
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Here in Doha, Qatar, everybody knows the Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo are in town, but nobody knows where. |
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Important questions still to be answered include: Is Aid for Trade a consolation prize for a failed Doha Agenda? |
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The Doha Round appears to be facing shorter and shorter deadlines for negotiations and less and less leeway for concessions. |
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We learned that at least three major news organizations had sent full crews to Doha this week to try to find the Taliban Five. |
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The liberal approach drafted for the Doha Round is therefore, really a decoy for the Developing Countries. |
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According to Doha News, it was around this time that Al-Thani sacrificed his Supercomplication watch to pay for the debts. |
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The potential benefits of a successful Doha Round are well documented and have been delineated in previous ICC statements. |
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Poor countries are despairing over the outlook for the Doha round of trade negotiations, which was intended to benefit them. |
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Officials express high hopes that the Doha festival will be a force for cross-cultural dialogue. |
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We failed to find our targets but we succeeded in having an adventure in Doha. |
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As the PSE Group we are convinced that if this point fails, Doha will be keelhauled and Cancun will have failed before it even starts. |
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I accept that the failure to accommodate the Doha amendments, the further recognition of homeopathic medicines and the limited extension of data exclusivity for switch products will leave some here with heavy hearts. |
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It stands to benefit from the new market access and the subsidy reductions and export subsidy eliminations offered by the European Union as part of the Doha WTO negotiations. |
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The woman behind the Blue Brush Hair Studio brought hairstylist David Martinez all the way from France to cater to the fashionistas of Doha. |
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As I did in the run-up to the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference last December, I will continue to strive for a strong ³caid for trade³d component in the Doha talks. |
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I would like to see nothing better than for the Doha round to be reignited and to proceed again and for us to try to create a stronger rules-based system for how we trade in the world. |
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Her delegation hoped that future negotiations would be based on the principles of transparency and inclusivity and that the needs of the developing and least developed countries would remain at the centre of the Doha Agenda. |
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The man from Doha will be back again in 2010, hungrier than ever and at the wheel of possibly the best car of the field, a Volkswagen Race Touareg. |
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Doha has also pledged to stop its direct and indirect support of instigative networks, whether based in Qatar or abroad. |
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Once again, time will tell if the pessimists or the optimists are right, but just for the record, if negotiations do get postponed once again, it would not be for the first time in the history of the Doha Round! |
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It was an unedifying example of the richer countries bullying the poorer ones and has prompted many to assert that the so-called victory in Doha was a failure for democracy. |
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Contrary to the model of a straightforward and ideal market conveyed by the above-mentioned Doha vulgate, agricultural markets, unlike other markets, would not reach by themselves this path to stabilization. |
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The Doha vulgate would lead, if it were implemented, to a crisis that we really do not need, with consequences even more drastic on food supply for the most impoverished populations. |
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Even so, the offer this week of cuts in farm protection by America's trade representative, Rob Portman, promises to jolt the current Doha round of trade talks out of their slumbers. |
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If an agreement is reached in the Doha round on trade liberalisation, export refunds will disappear and import tariffs for non-EU agricultural products will be reduced. |
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The new contract forms part of the partnership between Qatari Diar and VINCI, which is also building the Lusail light rail system and the Doha pumping station in Qatar. |
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But the tight and rigid timetable for Doha was designed to avoid a repetition of the Uruguay round, which overran by three years and still involved eleventh-hour horse-trading. |
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For three or four years, the Doha round has been blocked by the inability of governments to turn the people of the countries involved in favour of opening up the markets with rules, of course. |
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Concluding the Doha Round is essential to unlock that potential. |
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My role is of a purely judicial nature but I fully appreciate the importance of the wider political and security process taking place in Doha in order to stop the violence and prevent future crimes. |
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This impasse has made it impossible to launch new WTO negotiations beyond the Doha Development Round. |
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This is why many economists place such high importance on negotiations for global tariff reductions, such as the Doha Round. |
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During the first week of the war, Iraqi forces fired a Scud missile at the American Battlefield Update Assessment center in Camp Doha, Kuwait. |
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As punishment for piracy, an East India Company vessel bombarded Doha in 1821, destroying the town and forcing hundreds of residents to flee. |
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The Doha Declaration is the basis of the peace process in Darfur and it has achieved significant gains on the ground for the African region. |
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The Kempinski Residences and Suites is considered one of the plushest and best-located establishments in Qatar's capital of Doha. |
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The Doha Declaration reiterated the need to meet all ODA commitments. |
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We must adopt an identical and prudent position for agriculture and must now answer a deceptively naïve question: Are the empirical and theoretical foundations of the Doha Round well grounded? |
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The reluctance of most countries in the world to take the first step to break the deadlock in the Doha negotiations regarding agriculture is the perfect example. |
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I am in favour of Europe continuing to be in the vanguard on free and fair trade in the context of the Doha negotiations and of Europe promoting a multilateral approach both to political issues and to trade issues. |
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The Prime Minister emphasised that development should remain the prime focus of the Doha Round and welcomed the increased commitment to aid for trade. |
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Will this issue not be resolved if the Doha negotiations draw to a close? |
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Thus, the PSE is a powerful misinformation tool that allows the United States to clear itself of any responsibility for the failure of the Doha round and shift the blame to the European Union. |
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A long road, with its moments of hope and its dark hours, has been travelled from the La Celle Saint Cloud meeting, which we organized in July 2007 with the main Lebanese political players, to Doha. |
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A traditional water salute at Zagreb airport marked the arrival of Flight QR947 from Doha. |
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We expect our partners to make similar concessions and to pursue the necessary flexibility which will allow the balanced progress needed to be made in the individual sectors of the Doha agenda. |
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It is worth looking back to the early days of the Doha Round. |
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After Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Doha, Dublin, Muscat and Riyadh, Rabat is the seventh capital city in Averda's portfolio. |
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As part of the compromise arrived at in Geneva in order to continue the Doha round, the theme of cotton subsidies has now been firmly ensconced in the WTO agricultural negotiations. |
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We are committed to seize the opportunity provided by the Doha Round. |
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But should we conclude that the Doha Development Agenda needs to be closed, in order to start afresh with a wholly new mandate, and that we should then look for an early WTO Ministerial meeting to launch a new Round? |
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When it is well-known that the WTO is ready to fire at the European Union's decision to reintroduce export support measures for the dairy sector, it is quite legitimate to question the legitimacy of Doha. |
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The meeting was supposed to lead to a preliminary agreement between these four agricultural giants and breathe new life into the Doha Round, which has been in a stalemate for almost six years now. |
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Developed countries were reinterpreting and, in some cases, misinterpreting the Doha Development Agenda to further their neomercantilist interests. |
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Members' views, proposals and new initiatives on the current discussion themes could help point the way forward and provide critical inputs for the Doha Conference. |
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The Mexico WTO Mini-ministerial meeting in September 2001 under the skilful stewardship of Minister Derbez proved a key staging post on the road to the successful Ministerial Meeting in Doha last November. |
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The Doha talks are at a critical stage and a moment of truth has arrived. |
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We can thus measure the extreme thoughtlessness of those advocating a quick progress in the agricultural issues of the Doha Round, by insisting that it will be beneficial to the poorest nations. |
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Recognize the significance of reducing barriers to trade in remanufactured goods and support the recently submitted proposal5 to liberalize trade in remanufactured goods under the WTO6 Doha Round. |
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The start of the Doha Round in 2001 feels like ages ago and if the current draft modality text and new potential US Farm Bill are any indication, an agreement in the foreseeable future is still in doubt. |
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We reaffirmed our commitment to resist protectionist pressures and expressed our strong will to work toward the conclusion of an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive WTO Doha agreement. |
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It would also be a good idea for the future agreement on the Doha Round to include emergencies during which food aid can be provided, because the provisions to date are not binding. |
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It is also one reason why the ambitions of last year's annual policy strategy to make progress on Doha, on the Lisbon goals and on the Constitution came famously unstuck. |
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The reason why the European Union is now wholly opposed to ultra-liberal globalisation is because everyone has realised that it has become globalisation's main shoehorn, including at the last WTO summit at Doha. |
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I F you look around, you may find something straight from the heart of Paris at Hilton Doha, thanks to Sheika Muneera Saoud al Thani. |
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Bulgarian Finance Minister and his Qatari counterpart Ali Sherif al-Emadi met Monday morning at the Finance Ministry HQ in Doha. |
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A strange consensus is building up around the Doha Round conclusions between the world élite of political and economic decision-makers and those who vow to destroy the capitalist system. |
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The technicalities prevent presidents and prime ministers from clinching a Doha deal at a single sitting, but the technocrats in Geneva cannot get much further without a big political push. |
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The Special Rapporteur goes beyond the technicalities of the Doha round and draws important lessons from both the food crisis and the emerging threat of climate change. |
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To catalyze far-reaching trade liberalization through the Doha Round, the United States has put forth bold reform proposals to open markets, spur economic growth and alleviate poverty. |
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In this light, an extreme overhaul of the system adopted by the American congress, and at the same time a favorable outcome for the Doha Round, seem unfortunately to be more and more of a pipe dream. |
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Most recently, the WTO General Council Chairman, former Canadian trade minister Mr. Sergio Marchi, has actively participated in this damaging revisionism of what was agreed in Doha, to the detriment of developing countries. |
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Largely based on a neoliberal belief in the market self-regulating ability, the liberalization intended by the Doha Round has thus seen its effectiveness undermined by the recent crises. |
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Along the way, a number of issues that were part of the initial Doha Declaration have been dropped and some others have been spun out to WTO committees. |
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Over glasses of water in a Philippine cafe in a Doha suburba populated by migrant workers, the women laid bare their wretched six-month odyssey, which has left them on the brink of despair and repatriation. |
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Agriculture in the US has to benefit from the Doha round since Congress will not be in a position to back a trade agreement without the support of its farmers. |
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By treating agriculture like any other industry, not as the uniquely different industry that it is, the expectations of WTO negotiators for the Doha round were stymied. |
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As you all know, the Doha Development Round of the WTO negotiations was suspended last July, notably because of the intransigence of the United States. |
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I am not entirely sure whether the principles of brevity and crispness have been fully respected in our own resolution, but this is certainly something we hope you will follow in Doha. |
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Japan set out to exorcise its Doha demons by qualifying for France 1998, with coach Shu Kamo replaced by Takeshi Okada in 1997 after a string of disappointing results during the early qualifying rounds. |
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A rare note of harmony was sounded at the fractious UN climate change talks in Doha on Thursday, when countries agreed to take strong action on some of the most potent causes of global warming. |
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The WTO's deadlocked Doha Agenda offers little prospect for change. |
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The Hong Kong Conference in December 2005 should set the stage for an ambitious outcome of the Doha Development Agenda by end 2006, including tangible results for poor developing countries. |
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Yet recent glitches also suggest that politicians overestimated political support for big new deals. The threat of failure in the Doha round is most serious. |
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Both Aid for Trade and the Doha Round were the outgrowth of mutual interests and cooperation and provide a further opportunity to reinvigorate multilateral cooperation and affirm its importance. |
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Another major question mark hovers over how high the conclusion of the Doha Round will be placed on the agendas of new governments in Washington, New Delhi and Brussels. |
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Canada is committed to the reengagement of the World Trade Organization's Doha round of trade negotiations, and has an opportunity to push this as an integral part of its global foreign policy goals and objectives. |
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The EU's European Commission is behind the strong support to obtain a farreaching General Agreement on Trade in Services pursued in the context of the so-called WTO Doha Development Round. |
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Eighth, the Council called for confirmation of the decisions on issues concerning the relationship between trade and environment, pursuant to paragraphs 31 and 32 of the Doha Declaration, notably on MEA observership. |
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The Doha office of the international law firm Patton Boggs LLP celebrated its 10th anniversary with a reception recently. |
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Insofar as the completion of the Doha round of trade negotiations will assist African development in several ways, the Panel acknowledges disappointment that the negotiations are currently stalemated. |
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It is promising that last week, a compromise was reached about import levies on agricultural products and that with it, an impending failure of the Doha Round was warded off. |
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The new Doha International Airport is scheduled to open in July 2011, and will see over 12 million passengers per year passing through the Boon Edam revolving doors. |
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This policy furthers the Doha Development Programme. |
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In this environment of economic crisis and general trust breakdown, the Doha Round has returned to the forefront of the international scene because, for some observers, it would kill two birds with one stone. |
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The first commercial flight was made on 15 January 2015 between Doha and Frankfurt. |
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The approach of using global agreements to advance trade stumbled with the failure of the Doha Development Round of trade negotiation. |
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The FTAAP is more ambitious in scope than the Doha round, which limits itself to reducing trade restrictions. |
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Doha and Rayyan were evenly balanced in the distribution of 10-14 and 15-19 male age groups as well. |
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Chi'Zen, a part of the Foodmark's prime food chain, has launched its business lunch menu at the contemporary Oryx Rotana Doha. |
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Two rival Libyan tribes, the Tuareg and Toubou, have signed a ceasefire deal in Doha to end months of fighting, Qatar state media has reported. |
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On the community front, participating organisations included Doha SubAqua Club, H2O Swimming, the Doha Players and Doha Community Orchestra. |
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Famous Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao will be part of the exciting cosplay competition in Doha. |
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An office has been inaugurated by Gallowglass Group in Doha, Qatar for taking advantage of growing business opportunities in the Middle East. |
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While addressing the Ghanaian community in Qatar, Mahama promised that a Ghanaian embassy will be opened in Doha and a Qatari mission in Accra. |
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Last year Brazilian rider Alvaro Miranda claimed victory in Doha with a lightning quick round on his star horse Drossel Dan. |
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Health centres outside Doha, Al Khor Health Centre, Al Shamal Health Centre and Al Wakra Health Centre will be working from 7am to 11pm. |
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Al Jazeera is a main television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. |
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In March 2005, a suicide bombing killed a British teacher at the Doha Players Theatre, shocking the country, which had not previously experienced acts of terrorism. |
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The WTO is attempting to complete negotiations on the Doha Development Round, which was launched in 2001 with an explicit focus on developing countries. |
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A Twinning Agreement was finalised between Doha and Brasilia. |
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One of the most promising young Arab musicians today, he recently released his latest album Offstage, which is available at Virgin Megastore in Doha. |
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However, when most of the souqs in Doha are bustling with activities during the summer months, the footfall in this marketplace hasn't picked up much. |
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Doha Sooq was the first 'online shopping mall' offered by a bank in Qatar. |
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Doha Sooq visitors will be able to shop for a wide variety of product categories, as well as enjoy the convenience of booking tickets online for special events. |
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Under the directives of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, two planes left Doha yesterday to Yemen's Socotra island which was ravaged by two cyclones recently. |
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The Lusail Light Rail system will serve Qatar's Lusail City development, a 38-kilometer project north of Doha and Qatar's largest domestic real estate project. |
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Topaz Marine, the offshore support vessel division comprises Nico Middle East, Doha Marine Services, Topaz Saudi Arabia, BUE Caspian, BUE Kazakhstan and BUE Turkmenistan. |
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Indian expatriate forum Maharashtra Mandal Qatar recently held a musical event, featuring Marathi rock star Avdhoot Gupte and his team at the Doha Cinema. |
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Doha Gianfranco Buffa is a man with an objective in the 12th Arab Games. |
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A delegation, comprising Ethiopia's minister Shibru Mamo Kedida and Ambassador Mesganu Arga Moach in Doha, called on Barwa Group acting CEO Ahmad Abdullah al-Abdulla. |
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It was constructed by Qatar-based firm UrbaCon which also built the Sheraton Doha, the extremely popular Souq Wakif, and the under-construction Mall of Qatar. |
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Shortly after I'd landed back in the country after a busman's holiday in Doha on the Keys and Gray show, I got a text saying the Toon defender had got off his ban. |
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Doha holds the WTA Premier tournament Qatar Ladies Open annually. |
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Doha four times was the host of the official FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship and three times host FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship. |
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Hwang, the Pan Asian restaurant at InterContinental Doha The City, recently opened for lunch and I was lucky enough to experience the special bento box menu. |
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The WTO Doha Development Round, which intended to increase global development, has stalled due to the developed countries' refusal to remove agricultural subsidies. |
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On 29 July 2008, the WTO negotiations in the Doha round finally collapsed because of differences between the US, India and China over agricultural trade. |
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Houghton had told the AIFF that the selected players needed to be given extensive and uninterrupted training until the event in Doha, Qatar, the paper said. |
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Qatar handball team poses with Qatar Handball Association President Ahmad Mohamed al-Shaabi after winning gold at the 2nd GCC Beach Games at Gharafa court in Doha yesterday. |
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The Doha round of World Trade Organization negotiations aimed to lower barriers to trade around the world, with a focus on making trade fairer for developing countries. |
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Muslims from around the world are coming together in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Sunday, October 12, to save Israel-occupied Al-Quds, home to Islam's third holiest shrine. |
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In his second Mexican restaurant venture with business partner and chef Richard Sandoval, he recently opened Pampano on Pearl Island in Doha, Qatar. |
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The twice-weekly flights will operate from Doha to Asmara and will be served by an Airbus A320 featuring 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in Economy. |
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The album titled Tahoor and produced by a Saudi-based production company Al Ayen, was launched here on Tuesday at an event held at the Hilton Hotel Doha. |
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