The only course of action that Director-General Pascal Lamy can recommend is to suspend the Doha Development Agenda negotiations across the Round as a whole and he will recommend this to the General Council on Thursday 27 July 2006. He explained why in a statement to an informal meeting of heads of delegations in the Trade Negotiations Committee on Monday 24 July. This is what he said:
Thanks a lot for coming here today at a very short notice but events have precipitated in the last hours and I feel it is essential that we lucidly look together at where we are and what remains of our goal of concluding the Round by the end of the year. I cannot hide the sad truth: we are in dire straits.
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