Another fine-tuned blueprint for an agreement at the WTO Doha Development Round has been released in Geneva and despite clear progress, a final deal before Christmas is still a long-shot.

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Trade ministers now must decide whether to meet in Switzerland this month, or wait until Barack Obama has been installed as US president in January.


Outgoing Doha food talks chairman Crawford Falconer characterised the potential for success as a “glass (albeit conditionally) half-full rather than half-empty.”

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