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Doha Round: a win-win deal for Norwegian industries - Lamy

05 Jan '07
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Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Confederation of Industries in Oslo, 4 January 2007, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy stressed that the Doha Round was a win-win deal for Norway given the country's substantial interests in the negotiations and the flexibilities available in the Doha agenda to accompany a genuine reform in agriculture.

The sails of the Viking Longships in the storm of globalization Norwegian Confederation of Industries (NHO) Annual Conference, Oslo.

I am delighted to be here with you today on the occasion of this very special annual conference of the Confederation of Norwegian Industries. You have chosen globalisation and Norway's position in this world as the main topic of this meeting.

And this comes as no surprise to anybody. Globalisation, and in particular its economic side, is part of the Norwegian DNA. Your ancestors, the Vikings, who incidentally also happen to be my own ancestors since I come from Normandy, opened new trade routes to lands to the north, to the west and to the east back in the IX century. The Viking longships were then initiating the first waves of trade expansion.

Today we are experiencing a new stage of globalisation: an accelerated expansion of market capitalism, like the one experienced in the 19th century with the industrial revolution. It is a fundamental transformation in our societies due to the recent technological revolution. Today, we can say that globalization and increased market opening have had very positive effects as well as some negative consequences.

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