July 20, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1423

GENEVA, July 19: World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiators ended a key meeting here on Friday to take stock of progress on new global trade talks and will next meet in October, trade sources said.

“I think the team have done pretty well,” Mike Moore, director-general of the WTO and chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) that oversees the talks, told reporters on Friday.

Delegates of the 144-member WTO appeared cautiously optimistic about the progress achieved since the round was launched in Doha last November, trade sources said towards the end of the first day of the meeting on Thursday.—AFP