| 04 September 2006
This will be welcome news to millions of people around the world who feared that a WTO deal would have further impoverished the world's poorest people and caused irreparable damage to the environment. Developing countries, including India, also fear that a WTO deal would cause immense harm to millions of small and subsistence farmers.Alberto Villarreal, Trade Campaigner at Friends of the Earth in Latin America, currently in Geneva, said The collapse of these talks is good news. The proposals on the table had been driven by certain governments attempting to put the commercial interests of corporations before the needs of workers, farmers, and the global environment."
Ronnie Hall, Trade Campaigner at Friends of the Earth International added:
"The delay created by the failure of the Doha negotiations must be used to review past negotiations and analyse the flaws in the WTO system as a whole. It will allow us to reflect on how to develop multilateral governance systems that will genuinely promote fair and sustainable societies that benefit everyone."