10 Septembre 2003

BRIDGES Daily Updates (French)

Numéro 1, 10 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.06 MB Numéro 2, 11 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.08 MB Numéro 4, 13 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.06 MB Numéro 3, 12 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.06 MB Numéro 5, 14 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.19 MB Numéro 6, 15 septembre 2003 PDF  •  0.06 MB

Daily coverage of the Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference (10-14 September 2003), via BRIDGES Daily Updates, will be delivered by ICTSD in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese and Russian.The Updates are distributed both on-site at Cancun to governmental, press and NGO delegates, as well as electronically through ICTSD’s and its partners’ electronic mailing lists.

Shortly before 18:00 Cancun time, Mexican Trade Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez formally closed the Fifth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, without agreement on a Ministerial Text. The meeting had collapsed in mid-afternoon over ongoing deep divisions among Members, particularly over whether and how to launch negotiations on the ‘Singapore’ issues of investment, competition, transparency in government procurement and trade facilitation. Bridges Daily update, Issue: 6 Date: 15 September 2003