It's obviously my priority number one, two and three. I'll be fully hands-on and fostering negotiation and cooperation, |
Movement in those two areas would be helpful not only for the agriculture negotiations overall, but for the entire round. |
My sense is that what they will be trying to do today and tomorrow in Rio is try and identify a sort of landing zone ... that will have to take place to get an agreement. |
Not that what is on the table is nothing, but it is insufficient to reach an agreement. |
One has to get used to it. Because one day it will be the South Africans or others doing it. |
One more heavyweight around the table [is] good news. |
Only if a sense of urgency starts appearing in each and every delegation. |
Others are doing the running for South Africa. |
Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization. |
Some of you will have read, or perhaps written, stories about a Plan B to be implemented in the event that the Hong Kong ministerial conference falls short of our objectives. |
Starting from what is on the table, the only solution is stretching in the three directions. |
That's absolutely key, to move in concert. |
The April 30 deadline will be a moment of truth. It's approaching fast, so we don't have any minute to waste. |
The April deadline is the moment of truth, it's approaching fast and we do not have any minute to waste. Things are moving, the problem is they're not moving at the right pace. The pace remains too slow. |
The basic objective is to reach by Hong Kong a result that takes us two-thirds of the way to concluding the round in 2006. |