What happened in Geneva last week? Here are some useful summaries.
This Crowell and Mohring "Doha Developments Update" for June 23 has a lot of detail on the preparations, and often optimistic speculation, just before the meeting.
Martin Khor looked at a possible scenario for the Geneva meeting, just before: "Sequencing the Ministerial" and Scenarios of the Stages it has to Clear (Third World Network, June 28. I found this very helpful.
This morning, the Third World Network has several other reports on the progress of the ministerial:
- Mini-Ministerial not legitimate, says NGO letter to Ministers (Kanaga Raja, June 27)
- Concerns on process and on 'real trade flows' on eve of Ministerial (Martin Khor, June 28)
- Lamy outlines process for 'mini-Ministerial' this week (Kanaga Raja, June 28)
- As Ministerial starts, the question is "Who will move first?" (Martin Khor, June 29)
- Mini-Ministerial becomes "Waiting for America" (Martin, Khor, July 3)
These reports have far more concrete detail than most news stories.
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development has a special issue of "Bridges" out this morning, with an overview of events. The entire text is below the fold.
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