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G20 must now “walk the talk” on Doha — Lamy — Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his keynote address to the WTO Public Forum on 28 September 2009, said the G20 leaders at their Pittsburgh Summit agreed that “their negotiators now embark on the work programmes that we have established for the next three months, and that they then assess our collective ability to achieve our 2010 target”. He also said that the positive results of the Geneva referendum yesterday on the extension of the WTO headquarters “will encourage us to extend our outreach to you even further”.

Negotiators complete first round on agriculture ‘templates’ and data — Farm talks’ chairperson David Walker described as “a good start” two days of technical discussion on the blank forms members will use for making commitments on agriculture — and the accompanying data that will be needed — which ended on 1 October 2009. Negotiators will now examine various ideas that have been proposed, and the talks’ chairperson urged them to supply comments in writing before they next meet in the week of 12 October.

Negotiators complete first round on agriculture ‘templates’ and data — Farm talks’ chairperson David Walker described as “a good start” two days of technical discussion on the blank forms members will use for making commitments on agriculture — and the accompanying data that will be needed — which ended on 1 October 2009. Negotiators will now examine various ideas that have been proposed, and the talks’ chairperson urged them to supply comments in writing before they next meet in the week of 12 October.

Negotiators complete first round on agriculture ‘templates’ and data — Farm talks’ chairperson David Walker described as “a good start” two days of technical discussion on the blank forms members will use for making commitments on agriculture — and the accompanying data that will be needed — which ended on 1 October 2009. Negotiators will now examine various ideas that have been proposed, and the talks’ chairperson urged them to supply comments in writing before they next meet in the week of 12 October.

Industrial goods negotiations focus on non-tariff barriers and sectoral issues — At the start of a two-day meeting on non-agricultural market access on 23 September 2009, the Chair of the Negotiating Group, Ambassador Luzius Wasescha, encouraged WTO members to intensify work on non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade and to exchange information on sectoral negotiations aimed at achieving greater tariff reductions for specific industrial products.