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September 14, 2003

We're not sure how long this will last

A closing ceremony has been scheduled for three o'clock this afternoon, but no one really knows how long this meeting will last.

The closing plenary is scheduled for 3 pm, but it may be canceleed to allow negotiations to continue. Yesterday Pascal Lamy, the head of the EU delegation, said that negotiations could continue for two more days, until Tuesday.

It might be a good sign if the negotiations wrap up at three this afternoon. That would most likely mean that agreement has not been reached, that negotiations broke down over adding new issues to negotiate in the next year. The power of the WTO would not have expanded, and it would be some measure of success.

Posted by EricS at September 14, 2003 11:35 AM
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