The chair of the Doha agriculture negotiations, Ambassador Alparslan Acarsoy of Turkiye, is understood to have held a meeting with a dozen trade envoys on 9 January to elicit their views on how to finalize an outcome document for trade ministers to adopt at the World Trade Organization’s 13th ministerial conference (MC13) that begins in Abu Dhabi on 26 February, said people familiar with the development.
Trade envoys from the United States, the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Cameroon, and South Africa apparently attended the meeting.
The overall mood and ambiance appeared somewhat better than what had happened last month when an official from an unnamed country severely criticized the chair for including an item on the permanent solution for public stockholding (PSH) programs for food security in the list of priorities that he had prepared for consultations, said several people familiar with the discussions.
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