With one final round of talks planned in April before the Easter target for revised draft texts, Ambassador Walker urged negotiators to make “problem-solving” progress. He said he will continue to work with Geneva-based delegates before reconvening another fortnight of talks starting on 4 April.
He was wrapping up the latest round of agriculture talks, which began with a meeting of the full membership on 9 March and included two “Room E” meetings of about 38 representative delegations (see below), smaller consultations that he held with some negotiators on four contentious subjects, and meetings some delegates held among themselves.
WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS: INFORMAL MEETING
Farm talks chair calls for ‘problem-solving’ progress
Special Correspondent - 2011-03-21 23:52
Over the past 10 days delegations provided no new input to revise the 2008 draft “modalities” text, agriculture negotiations chairperson David Walker told the full membership on 18 March 2011, but he understood that negotiators were continuing to work among themselves in order to make progress.