Lourenço Melo
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - Government representatives from Brazil, the United States (US), India, and the European Union (EU) have been meeting since yesterday (22) in Paris. Their agenda is focussed on the negotiations for the Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The meeting, which is scheduled to occur in December of this year, concludes the Doha Round, the series of trade negotiations initiated in September, 2001. The meeting in Paris ends today (23).

Brazil is represented by the minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, at this meeting of the countries known as the Group of Four (G-4). According to the press office of the Ministry, issues such as agricultural subsidies and tariff policies practiced by the countries in the bloc are on the docket.

Translation: David Silberstein