WTO negotiators have agreed to push for a "framework" agreement upon agriculture in the Doha cylindrical negotiations by the end of July The end-July target was agreed according to officials late last Friday at the last of a week-long informal negotiating session in Geneva.

WTO negotiators have agreed to push for a "framework" agreement upon agriculture in the Doha cylindrical negotiations by the end of July

The end-July target was agreed according to officials late last Friday at the last of a week-long informal negotiating session in Geneva.

The deadline ponders a growing view that progres must be made before the summer to obstruct the multilateral negotiations being bogg down in the US Presidential election proces and the change of personnel at the head of the European Commission, the two of which are to appear in the autumn.

The "framework" deal would fix out ...