We interrupt our regular coverage to bring you breaking news from Geneva: WTO negotiators have managed to agree on something in the Doha Round!
Unfortunately, what they’re agreeing on is that we’re screwed, as ICTSD reports:
A meeting of senior officials from 19 WTO members last week was valuable primarily for helping participants reach “a common diagnosis” of the “seriousness and depth” of the problem governments face in trying to conclude the Doha Round trade talks, officials said.
Plus ca change. In other news, negotiators at the NPT review conference had been underway for 19 hours as at 6.30am UK time today – but John Duncan, the UK’s Ambassador for multilateral arms control, tweets that they’re “still some way from an agreement”.
Come on, multilateralism. Give us something this year. Anything.
