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Saturday, February 14, 2009

JG - Mendicancy revisited

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

Mendicancy revisited

published: Sunday July 13, 2008

Robert Buddan, Contributor

When Dr Kenneth Baugh, the deputy prime minister, made his administration's maiden speech at the United Nations on October 3, 2007, a month after coming to office, there was no difference evident between his administration's position and that of the previous administration's position on international trade negotiations. Dr Baugh said that the new government would continue to pursue the widely accepted principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries under the DOHA Round of WTO negotiations, and that the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) being negotiated with the European Union was inequitable and violated the principle of global partnership.

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