RIO, JANEIRO Nov 5: Brazil believes that considerable progress is possible before the end of the year in talks to clinch a global trade deal, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Monday.
“Today we are very close to a final accord. We lack only a little bit of political will to get to a final result. It depends on political attitudes,” Amorim told reporters at a foreign policy conference in Rio de Janeiro.
“I think it is possible that at the end of the year we will reach an accord on basic numbers, on the basic framework of (WTO chief) Pascal Lamy.”—Reuters
