Mandelson is in Kenya

According to IRIN news, featured on ALertnet.org, Mandelson is urging the issue of agriculture to still be placed in the table :

""On agriculture, there is still a lot of discussion and negotiation to go and I want that to continue," Peter Mandelson, the European Union's (EU's) trade commissioner, told a news conference."

Also, to give the impression to developing country officials that he does care about those countrie's needs he has "called on all industrialised countries to join the EU in committing themselves to providing duty and quota-free market access to the least developed countries (LDCs)."

This meeting is one of many scheduled meetings that will "give political guidance and cement political will in the trade negotiation process ahead of another major ministerial conference in Hong Kong later this year"

Amen.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/cf4a9e1a72fb2ce3f8b44513265e2f3e.htm