APEC draft calls for restart of Doha
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Pacific Rim finance ministers called on   Friday for some emerging Asian economies to show greater   currency flexibility to address global imbalances and for the   group to work toward reviving world trade talks.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) sought on Friday to rekindle hopes of a global trade deal after talks between four major powers collapsed.
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Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin, while attending the APEC Summit in Santiago, Chile, tried to garner support among world leaders for his idea of instantiating a new world forum, a so-called L-20 group of leaders, consisting of the G-8 countries and the leaders of about 12 other emerging economic powers like India, China, Brazil and South Korea.  As The Toronto Star reported, the animated Prime Minister Martin literally had to be yanked away by his own handlers after describing in urgent tones the need for United Nations reform and for a new forum of world leaders that he wants to create. He bemoaned Sudanese being slaughtered while the UN dithers, he interrupted several questions from reporters to elaborate further, and Saturday he waved off an aide who tried cutting off a press conference.
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SANGIAGO : Asia-Pacific powers appeared split on a radical proposal for the creation of a region-wide free trade pact. Business chiefs have called for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum leaders
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By Jason Webb SANTIAGO, Chile  - Asia-Pacific leaders promisedon Sunday to try to revive world trade talks and fightterrorism after a summit marred at the end by spats over thesecurity of President Bush.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Pacific Rim trading nations said today they should pool their influence to breathe new life into talks to free up world trade.
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Asia-Pacific leaders conclude their summit by calling for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks.
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Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states in the Apec grouping have ended a summit in Chile with a call for action to lower global trade barriers.
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President Bush's second administration is committed to relaunching stalled world trade talks and the possibility of lifting some 300 million people out of poverty, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.
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Saving world trade talks and bolstering  global financial systems against fiscal crises were the focus  of finance ministers of the United States, China and other  Pacific Rim economies meeting in Vietnam on Thursday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rich countries and   developing nations agreed on Sunday that global trade talks   should resume, but they failed to set a date for formal   negotiations.
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Ministers and officials from the 21 Asia and Pacific Rim economies continue their work in Santiago, Chile, in preparation for the two-day summit of leaders from APEC - the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) general council agreed, early this month in Geneva, on the &quot;July Package&quot; that set a framework for the Doha Round, which had been in trouble since the collapse of the ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico about a year ago
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The World Trade Organization's (WTO) 150 states backed on Wednesday a call for a full-scale resumption of the Doha round of free trade talks, suspended six months ago due to deep divisions between members.
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan called Sunday for flexibility to end a complex financial dispute blocking North Korea&#39;s nuclear disarmament.
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Pacific Rim trading nations said on Wednesday they should pool their influence to energize talks to free up world trade. As trade and foreign ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific
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The Group of 20 emerging countries and world trade heavyweights the United States, European Union and Japan clamored here Sunday for a resumption of the WTO Doha Round of negotiations, but offered no hard specifics on when or how.