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Visitors enter the World Trade Organization headquarters during an open house at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.

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  1. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.
  2. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.
  3. French Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, speaks to visitors at the WTO headquarters during an open house in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.
  4. Visitors enter the World Trade Organization headquarters during an open house at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.
  5. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy reacts during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  6. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  7. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  8. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy attends a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  9. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009.
  10. World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy, fourth right, Principal Secretary to Indian Prime Minister T.K.A. Nair, third right, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, left, with other trade representatives at a meeting at the Prime Minister's residence in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009.
  11. Indian farmers take part in a protest rally against World Trade Organization (WTO) in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Trade officials from 35 countries are meeting in New Delhi for a WTO informal Ministerial meeting being hosted by India.
  12. Indian farmers shout slogans at a protest rally against World Trade Organization (WTO) in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Trade officials from 35 countries are meeting in New Delhi for a WTO informal Ministerial meeting being hosted by India.
  13. Delegates are seated at the start of the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.
  14. Indian farmers sit at a protest rally against World Trade Organization (WTO) in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Trade officials from 35 countries are meeting in New Delhi for a WTO informal Ministerial meeting being hosted by India.
  15. Indian farmers sit at a protest rally against World Trade Organization (WTO) in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Trade officials from 35 countries are meeting in New Delhi for a WTO informal Ministerial meeting being hosted by India.
  16. Anti-WTO placards and an effigy representing the organisation are held by Indian Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) activists during a protest in New Delhi on September 3, 2009. Trade ministers assembled in New Delhi for a two-day WTO meeting from September 3, aimed at bridging differences between developed and developing nations and putting global trade talks back on track. The two days of informal ministerial level talks are billed as key to laying the groundwork for further progress at a meeting of G20 leaders of wealthy and emerging nations in Pittsburgh in late September.

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