§ 14. Ann WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on the impact on developing countries of the outcome o the fifth ministerial round of the World Trade Organisation meeting at Cancun. [132052]
§ Hilary BennThe failure of the WTO ministerial talks it Cancun was a setback for the Doha Development Agenda and a blow to developing and developed countries alike. I believe that this failure will disadvantage the world's poorest countries most. Developing countries stand to get a better deal through multilateral negotiations in the WTO—where developing countries make up two thirds of the membership—than through multitude of regional and bilateral agreements with bigger economic players.