Doha's WTO conference

The 4th Doha ministerial conference of the World Trade organization in conclusion of 6- day negotiations wrapped up on Wednesday came up with a ministerial declaration that availed launching of a new round of multilateral trade negotiations as the developing countries could get demands that seemed not possible.

News reports on Thursday said that meeting the demands of the developing countries which represent more than half of members of the World Trade Organization WTO was a key element to the success of the conference. The reports added that despite the fact that these countries are mostly ignored when major trade negotiations are held, however, the major states have realized that they have to take these " 80 developing " countries into account, so as the great failure of Seattle's conference 1999 will not be repeated and utmost use is made of the lessons of the previous Uruguay's rounds which were based on the need of helping the poorest.

Although the agreement stumbled until the last moment because of India's reservation on certain points of the declaration, the participants surmounted their differences on their care to start plenary negotiations with the hope to remove more trade restrictions and reviving the stumbled world economy through liberalizing trade exchanges which experts expect to add USD 1.3 trillion to the world economy, thanks to investing best human and material resources.

The developing countries came out of the conference, having in their pockets decisions for which they struggled a lot, foremost being the text relating to intellectual property which avails producing medicines at less costs outside innovation certificate. This part was in particularly snatched from the US and Switzerland.

Although the agricultural developing states have not achieved set aims to lift support for agricultural exports in the rich countries, a measure which gives its production the capacity to compete, the part related to agriculture came satisfactory in its minimum rates, with the persistence of the European Union to gradual reduction but with no obligation to canceling.

The developing countries also got almost what they demanded concerning the social dimension which the agreement decided to keep within the specialization of the World Labor Organization. These countries, had on the other side to give concessions over accepting to start negotiations over the relations between trade and the environment. These countries used to reject enrolling the issues of the environment and the social dimension within the agreement of fears to become a pretext to impose restrictions and measures against their production.