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Key players look to bolster consensus at WTO talks

AFP, Geneva
Top negotiators prepared Sunday to try to firm up emerging signs of consensus on a new global trade pact, with signs that marathon talks here will spill into another week.
Key players in the delicate negotiations were buoyed Saturday by broadly positive talks on the services sector but were due to return on Sunday afternoon to the crunch points of farming and industrial products, with some countries still unhappy with the compromise on the table.
"The process of engagement is continuing, and this process will continue again tomorrow. So I'm optimistic," said India's Commerce Trade Minister Kamal Nath on Saturday after almost five hours of meetings with his counterparts.
WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell told AFP on Sunday morning that bananas and
cotton were the issues to watch in the day's talks.
A group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries had earlier accepted a new tariff level proposed by the WTO to end a dispute over banana imports in the European Union, but called for a longer period to apply changes.
African nations have said meanwhile that they are running out of patience over US subsidies for cotton producers.
Ministers have been meeting at the World Trade Organization since Monday to discuss cuts in subsidies and import tariffs with the aim of mapping out a new deal under the so-called Doha Round of WTO talks.
The Doha Round was launched in the Qatari capital seven years ago but has been deadlocked because of disputes between the rich devel-
oped world and poorer developing nations on trade in farm and industrial products.
Nath's upbeat tone on Saturday's talks on services was echoed by other key players.
The head negotiator for emerging economy Brazil, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, hailed their "good atmosphere."
"Everybody there was speaking about services and trying to be as positive as each one can be without any attempt to spoil the game," he said.
United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab also voiced optimism.
"Whether it was the developed countries or the developing countries' participants, this conversation about services, the first really that the ministers have had together, was a good step forward, a positive step forward," she said.