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The Issues in Brief

Since Seattle, African governments have joined with other developing nations in sustained efforts to develop common positions and present them to the WTO. Despite all this, final proposals presented at the last minute by the WTO's inner club as the basis for consensus almost totally disregard these critiques. Whether or not this power play results in imposing a false "consensus" declaration in Doha, the contentious issues will not go away. Below are the points of most concern to African and other developing countries, as concisely and in as non-technical language as possible.