(1 Aug 2004) SHOTLIST
Night Shots
1. Wide exterior of building where World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting being held
2. Various of delegates entering building
3. EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Franz Fischler enters the building
4. Various of journalists waiting outside
5. Entrance of building
6. Wide aerial pan of interior of Assembly, people working
7. Meeting
8. Clock, zoom out
9. German Minister for Trade and employment, Wolfgang Clement head in hands
10. EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Franz Fischler reading the draft
11. EU head chief negotiator, Pascal Lamy standing
12. Close up Lamy
13. US head of Delegation, Robert Zoellick with French delegate
14. Pan from photographer to Director General of WTO, Supachai Panitchpakdi
15. Final news conference by Supachai
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General, WTO:
"Today I think surely we are going through a historic moment. It is really a historic moment for this organisation for we have proved again when our members set their heads and their minds together we can overcome all kinds of obstacles."
17. Media
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General, WTO:
"And we have now achieved what we failed to do in Cancun. Today multilateralism has certainly made a minor triumph. I call it a minor triumph because the major triumph would be the day that we successfully complete the Doha development agenda."
19. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE
World Trade Organisation (WTO) members approved a plan on Sunday to end export subsidies on farm products and cut import duties across the world, a key step towards a comprehensive global accord that has been discussed since 2001, according to trade officials.
The deal was approved by a consensus of the 147-nation body shortly after midnight, opening the way for full negotiations to start in September.
WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell said the approval followed a breakthrough earlier on Saturday when some 20 key countries approved a document setting out the framework for a legally binding treaty.
The document commits nations to lowering import duties and reducing government support in the three major areas of international trade - industrial goods, agriculture and service industries such as telecommunications and banking.
The deal will set back in motion the long-stalled "round" of trade liberalisation treaty talks launched by WTO members in Doha, Qatar, in 2001, but delayed by the collapse of the body's ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, last year.
WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, who had mediated the negotiations since the collapse in Cancun, was excited, calling it an historic moment.
"It is really a historic moment for this organisation for we have proved again when our members set their heads and their minds together we can overcome all kinds of obstacles," he said.
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