Developing nations try to restart talks on a global trade

1. Zoom-out from sign on Copacabana Palace Hotel to wide of hotel 2. Wide of ministers at the corridor of hotel before the opening ceremony 3. Wide of ministers entering the room for the opening ceremony 4. Brazilian Chancellor Celso Amorim entering the room 5. Medium of Zhang Xiangchein, Director of World Tourism Organisation (WTO) at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce 6. Medium of Kamal Nath, Minister of Industry and Commerce of India 7. Wide of Brazilian Chancellor Celso Amorim talking to Argentinean Chancellor Jorge Taiana before the opening ceremony 8. Wide of opening ceremony 9. Pan of opening ceremony 10. Celso Amorim at table 11. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Celso Amorim, Brazilian Foreign Minister: "The simple fact of us being here reunited shows our commitment with the negotiations. What we are saying to the world is that for us, developing countries that need more access and less distortions, failure is simply not an option. " 12. Media 13. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Celso Amorim, Brazilian Foreign Minister: "The restart of the (Doha) round cannot happen in detriment of the progress obtained until today. It also cannot loose the essential fact that this is a round from and to the development. We will not accept the easy exit of backing away before the differences or reducing our level of ambition." 14. Wide of ministers lining up for photo opportunity 15. Pan of ministers lined up for photo opportunity 16. Medium of Brazilian Chancellor Celso Amorim, zoom out to wide of ministers posing for photo opportunity STORYLINE: Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim declared on Saturday that "failure is simply not an option" as the emerging market nations of the Group of 20 met to assess what it would take to restart global trade talks. The G-20 High-Level Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, uniting 21 ministers from developing countries, marked the first meeting of it's kind since World Trade Organisation (WTO) discussions stalled in July over the question of rich nation's subsides for agriculture. During two days of meetings at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, the 21 ministers of developing countries will try to restart global trade talks. Ministers arrived at the Copacabana amid heavy security. Amorim made clear that the developing nations were unlikely to back off their key demands for greater access to developed countries' agricultural markets. The main stumbling block in negotiations, known as the Doha Round, has been G-20 demands that developed nations do away with agricultural subsidies and tariff barriers for their farm products. Powerful farm lobbies in the US, Europe and Japan, however, strongly oppose an end to subsidies which they fear will leave them unable to compete with the flood of cheap imports. The Doha round of trade talks, named after the Qatari capital where they were started in 2001, is aimed at slashing trade barriers across the planet. Supporters say a successful round will boost the global economy and lift poor countries out of misery, while opponents contend a binding WTO trade treaty will simply lead to more profits for multi-national companies while virtually enslaving workers in developing nations. The entire process is rapidly running out of time because US President George W Bush's authority to "fast track" the trade deal, enabling US envoys to negotiate an agreement that can be submitted to Congress for a yes-or-no vote without amendments, runs out in mid-2007. Days after the G-20 meeting, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will host the heads of states of India and South Africa in Brasilia to discuss strengthening economic links between those countries and South America's Mercosur bloc, made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ee48b2602e4fa20a72396cfe88af8e22 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork