We've got a big number of topics to be addressed. Most of that has to be done in the first half of this year.

The global trading system is undergoing a period of transition. Persistent imbalances, driven largely by macroeconomic factors, continue to be a cause for concern.

I think that the unblocking of the European and American positions remains a central point of the farm negotiations, which are themselves at the centre of the ... talks.

Things won't be any simpler in one, two or three months.

It would in my view be very strange, and that, by the way, was the reaction of a large part of the members.

They have margins of maneuver which they have to use tactically to the maximum of their capacities. The question is: when do they show their hand.