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Vol. 5 Num 554 Sat. December 17, 2005  
   
Business


Talks going backwards
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(From left) Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath, Minister of Agriculture of Mauritius Arvin Boolell, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Zambian Minister of Commerce Dipak KA Patel and Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohammad Rachid hold their hands up after receiving a placard from Oxfam calling on ministers to make trade fair after a press conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference in Hong Kong yesterday. A major coalition of developing countries charged that WTO trade talks here would drive its members deeper into poverty and warned it would reject any deal that harmed their interests.. PHOTO: AFP