Fed: France putting millions in jeopardy with WTO stance: Vaile

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: October 24, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
10-24-2005
Fed: France putting millions in jeopardy with WTO stance: Vaile

By Shane Wright, Economics Correspondent

CANBERRA, Oct 24 AAP - France is stopping millions of people moving out of poverty
and jeopardising world trade by its refusal to open European agricultural markets, Trade
Minister Mark Vaile says.

In a major attack, Mr Vaile today singled out France and its role within the EU for
undermining the current round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.

And he said a planned meeting of WTO trade ministers in Hong Kong should go ahead in
December, ...

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