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Financial Times (London, England)
September 5, 2005 Monday
London Edition 3
SECTION: FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 357 words
HEADLINE: Blair seeks end to farm export subsidies
BYLINE: By CHRISTOPHER ADAMS, BEN HALL and RICHARD MCGREGOR
DATELINE: LONDON and BEIJING
BODY:
Tony Blair has demanded an end to agricultural export subsidies in five years, warning today that failure to make progress at world trade talks in December could be "fatal" for the Doha round.
The prime minister, writing in the Financial Times, sets out an agenda on Africa, climate change and trade with the developing world that he hopes will form the basis for a round of international summits as he enters the final phase of Britain's chairmanship of the G8 and European Union.
Mr Blair, who was due to arrive in Beijing last night for talks between China and EU leaders, says developed countries have a "moral responsibility" to alleviate poverty by removing protectionist trade barriers.
His comments come amid a trade dispute between Beijing and the EU over cheap Chinese textile imports. Talks between the two sides ended yesterday with no agreement on how to release about 80m pieces of Chinese-made clothing impounded in European warehouses.
The inability to resolve the dispute after talks beginning early yesterday in Beijing and continuing late into the night is an embarrassment before today's EU-China leaders' summit in the Chinese capital.
In the FT, Mr Blair calls for a stronger dialogue with China and, apparently undeterred by the failure to agree on a date for ending export subsidies at July's Group of Eight nations summit in Gleneagles, predicts a wider deal on ending protectionism.
He urges World Trade Organisation members to agree at their talks in December to scrap export subsidies within five years.
"It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010," Mr Blair says. "There is an enormous amount at stake. ... Failure to make progress could even be fatal for the trade round."
On poverty, Mr Blair says the G8 commitments on Africa at Gleneagles are a substantial step forward but that further action is needed. Looking to this month's United Nations summit in New York, he says progress towards meeting development goals to halve poverty and cut child mortality must be accelerated.
He also calls for a new global agreement on climate change that goes beyond 2012. Beijing ties, Page 5 Longer campaign, Page 17
LOAD-DATE: September 4, 2005
September 5, 2005 Monday
London Edition 3
SECTION: FRONT PAGE - FIRST SECTION; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 357 words
HEADLINE: Blair seeks end to farm export subsidies
BYLINE: By CHRISTOPHER ADAMS, BEN HALL and RICHARD MCGREGOR
DATELINE: LONDON and BEIJING
BODY:
Tony Blair has demanded an end to agricultural export subsidies in five years, warning today that failure to make progress at world trade talks in December could be "fatal" for the Doha round.
The prime minister, writing in the Financial Times, sets out an agenda on Africa, climate change and trade with the developing world that he hopes will form the basis for a round of international summits as he enters the final phase of Britain's chairmanship of the G8 and European Union.
Mr Blair, who was due to arrive in Beijing last night for talks between China and EU leaders, says developed countries have a "moral responsibility" to alleviate poverty by removing protectionist trade barriers.
His comments come amid a trade dispute between Beijing and the EU over cheap Chinese textile imports. Talks between the two sides ended yesterday with no agreement on how to release about 80m pieces of Chinese-made clothing impounded in European warehouses.
The inability to resolve the dispute after talks beginning early yesterday in Beijing and continuing late into the night is an embarrassment before today's EU-China leaders' summit in the Chinese capital.
In the FT, Mr Blair calls for a stronger dialogue with China and, apparently undeterred by the failure to agree on a date for ending export subsidies at July's Group of Eight nations summit in Gleneagles, predicts a wider deal on ending protectionism.
He urges World Trade Organisation members to agree at their talks in December to scrap export subsidies within five years.
"It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010," Mr Blair says. "There is an enormous amount at stake. ... Failure to make progress could even be fatal for the trade round."
On poverty, Mr Blair says the G8 commitments on Africa at Gleneagles are a substantial step forward but that further action is needed. Looking to this month's United Nations summit in New York, he says progress towards meeting development goals to halve poverty and cut child mortality must be accelerated.
He also calls for a new global agreement on climate change that goes beyond 2012. Beijing ties, Page 5 Longer campaign, Page 17
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