Davos Annual Meeting 2006 - A Trade Compromise, for Now?

http://www.weforum.org/ 28.01.2006 Though an agreement was reached around agricultural subsidies, the outcome of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong has only paved the way for even more extracted talks in the future. 1) Given the very mitigated outcome, can the Doha Round succeed? 2) What is at stake for the global economy? 3) Can the Doha "Development" Round really be about development? Celso Amorim, Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil Joseph Deiss, Federal Councillor of the Economy of the Swiss Confederation Alan Kyerematen, Minister of Trade, Industry and Presidential Special Initiatives of Ghana Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva Peter Mandelson, Commissioner, Trade, European Commission, Brussels Shoichi Nakagawa, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India Robert Portman, US Trade Representative Mark Vaile, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade of Australia Introduced by Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India; Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting 2006 Chaired by Christine Ockrent, Senior Editor and Author, France Télévisions, France 3, France