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. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 months ago

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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  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. Television sets screen Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speak during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel, at an electronics shop in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  4. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy, left, and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) head Kandeh Yumkella, right, attend a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  5. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  6. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, on Thursday, Dec.3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  7. Men look at a television screening of Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he speaks during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel, at an electronics shop in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  8. Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  9. A man passes by television sets, showing Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel, at an electronics shop in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  10. Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  11. A customer selects shoes at a store in Changzhi, Shanxi province December 3, 2009. China may take its case to the World Trade Organization if the European Union prolongs import duties on leather shoes from China and Vietnam, an official at the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
  12. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk smiles during the closing news conference of the 7th WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva December 2, 2009.
  13. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk gestures during the closing news conference of the 7th WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva December 2, 2009.
  14. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk gestures during the closing news conference of the 7th WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva December 2, 2009.
  15. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk smiles during the closing news conference of the 7th WTO ministerial meeting in Geneva December 2, 2009.
  16. Chilean Andres Velasco, left, Minister of Finance and president of the conference, with French Pascal Lamy, right, World Trade Organization Director-General, view a document prior the closing ceremony of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG), in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.

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