Delegations emphasized the importance of future WTO work in products of export interest to them, in particular bananas and cotton.
A touch of colour: Director-General's summing up back to top
Speaking to journalists afterwards, WTO Direct-General Pascal Lamy said that in the last night alone, negotiators consumed 350 cups of coffee. During the week, 450 meetings were organized, six major gatherings and over 200 consultations by facilitators. The result:
“There has been a rebalancing in favour of developing countries, whose interests have now been placed at the heart of our negotiations as we provided for in 2001 when we launched this round.
“And more importantly, we have built the political energy necessary to advance technically during 2006, and believe me, there will be plenty to do next year. We now have enough fuel in the tank to cruise at the right negotiating altitude new.
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