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No deal better than a bad deal at WTO, says World Development Movement
30 July 2008
In response to comments from Susan Schwab, US Trade negotiator that talks collapsed today, the World Development Movement says that this is a better outcome for the world’s poor than a bad deal.
Vicky Cann, the World Development Movement trade spokesperson said:
“This is a better outcome for the world’s poorest people than the bad deal on the table - the EU and the USA were aggressive and greedy and the development needs of poor countries have been completely sidelined, not just in the last nine days, but in the last seven years of discussions. It’s absolutely right that developing countries stood up to that.
“The EU and USA have failed to grasp that while developing countries may have their differences, there is strong solidarity. India, in particular, held firm in representing the views of the many developing countries unfairly excluded from taking part in the talks.
"If trade is to work for the poor, the EU needs a wholesale change of approach, one that places poverty eradication at its heart. Whatever the final straw this week they failed because the EU and the US negotiators spent seven long years listening to entrenched domestic corporate and political interests and not the voices of developing countries, who are living with intense poverty and now, a food crisis.”
Kate Blagojevic
Press officer, World Development Movement
0207 820 4900/4913, 07711 875 345, Email:
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