G20 Meeting
（DALIANNEWS）-- The WTO Informal Ministerial Meeting of the G20
group of developing countries held today at Dalian Bangcui Dao Guesthouse to
talk over the agriculture issues and paved the way to the next meeting agenda in
the afternoon.
G20, which in
effect comprises less than 20 but significantly powerful developing countries
namely, Brazil, China, India and South Africa.
Dimensions of G20
Although the G20 has lost a
few members, the group was formed on August 20 and thus the name of the group as
G20 remains. The acknowledged core of the G20 represents the most influential
and powerful economies of the developing world - Brazil, China, India and South
Africa. The formal program of the G20 is limited. It is a formation built on
agriculture with a very specific demand on a radical reduction of high levels of
agricultural subsidization in the EU and the US that adversely affects the
developing world. Nevertheless, the smaller African countries asserted caution
with respect to the G20. This caution stemmed from a sense that the program was
quite limited; a sense that the key countries in the G20 represented export
agricultural interests rather than small farming interests; a sense that somehow
some of the G20 countries were not that sympathetic to the demands of the
smaller countries that should have special products that should be exempted from
liberalization on the basis of special and differential treatment. The latter
reason was the very basis on which the group of 27 was founded.
The
State Ministry of Commerce Minister Bo Xilai (L) talked with WTO high officals
Foreign
correspondents' paraphernalia are being inspected by local security guard
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