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| The worst part is that the negotiations (more correctly, rhetoric on respective positions) have widened the schism between the rich and poor countries. |
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| Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has indicated that its member countries will meet again at its Geneva headquarters once the dust settles, in a few months, there seems little chance that the process can be put back on track so soon. |
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It will be naive to expect any change by then in the stand of the US, where presidential elections are due in November 2004, or of a European Union that will get preoccupied with issues concerning the admission of 10 new members next year
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