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Death-Defying Doha
Just as the World Trade Organisation is organizing an intensive push to complete the Doha round trade talks, the atmosphere among negotiators is as pessimistic as it ever has been. 
“Gloom” and “frustration” are just two of the more printable words circulating at the WTO’s headquarters by Lake Geneva.
Even WTO chief Pascal Lamy says that Doha – already the longest running trade round – will not meet the latest 2010 deadline set by G20 leaders unless governments really instruct their negotiators to make the necessary compromises, and negotiators start to put those compromises down on paper.
Lamy, who suspended the round in 2006 but has led a renewed push for the last three years, and others point to the enormous progress made towards a deal in eight tortuous years.
