African Ministers of Trade meet to prepare for the forthcoming 6th WTO Ministerial.
By Andrew Allimadi
21 November 2005

The 2nd extraordinary session of the African Union’s Conference of Ministers of Trade, opened Monday 21 November in Arusha, Tanzania, and is scheduled to run for four days. During the conference, African ministers will prepare concrete negotiating positions for the forthcoming World Trade Organization Ministerial conference, scheduled for Hong Kong, China from 13 to 18 December. The Ministers will agree on key development measures critical to African countries and therefore essential to the Doha Round negotiations. Negotiators in Geneva have so far failed to reach agreement on several key areas of the talks, and it will take a big push by ministers for an agreement to emerge at Hong Kong.