In a speech to the Seventh Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade, held in the Doha, Qatar, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the world’s poorest countries will slip further behind if the current round of international trade talks fail. Mr. Ban expressed his frustration at the slow pace of progress of the trade talks, and cautioned that unless the trade talks succeed, “serious damage will be done to those who can least afford it, to the multilateral trading system, and to multilateralism itself.
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