Developing states hold ground in WTO talks: Brazil

Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Friday that developing countries were largely on the same wavelength in deadlocked global trade talks. Amorim, a leading figure in the G20 group of emerging and developing nations in the World Trade Organisation, said after meeting representatives of the broader G90 group of developing nations that any differences were "smaller than what we have in common."
"I felt that we''re on the same wavelength in terms of unity and mobilisation," he told journalists, underlining a common desire to continue negotiations and ward off attempts to drive a wedge between poorer nations.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Thursday criticised the role played by fast-growing emerging nations - mainly Brazil and India - saying they were too often taken to represent the interests of poor nations as a whole.