GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS REGISTER WTO NEGOTIATIONS FAILURE
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLIT is not often that participants in international negotiations admit that they have failed, but such an admission has come from diplomats involved in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a register for wine and spirit geographical designations. Negotiations chairman Ambassador Manzoor Ahmad, of Pakistan, said in a report that despite "active engagement...the level of convergence has not significantly expanded" since the last WTO summit, in Cancun, September 2003. Differences remain over whether registration should bring legal ...
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