we cannot afford to see the recent doha history repeat itself here. we must and we will approach international services agreement with a keen awareness that a plurilateral discussion -- should be a stepping stone for advancing multilateral liberalization. this is possible, there are ways to do it and we are ready to move now. it's been no surprise to me that we have also heard a lot today about interest and expanding the information technology agreement. here again, your identification of a product area right for liberalizing work is hugely welcome and we're taking it very seriously. our team is working closely with like minded ita members to scope out the most viable approach to negotiations in this area. taking into account the need to expand product coverage, retain a commitment of existing ita members and expand the appeal of the agreement to wto members who aren't yet ita participants. here again close collaboration between the u.s. and the eu is essential. we're not quite yet on the same page particularly with regard to the scope of an ita expan

and it had the most posts doha trade agenda. i am to your right, carla and your surrogates sandwiched by folks who do agree that doha is dead and we don't need to get into the theological debate. i think we would all agree that we need to get beyond doha and that is sort of my core premise here and whatever we want to call it. bush is declared the jury and move on. so that is what i am going to talk about. i think the key in terms of what is going on in geneva today, sadly is that we have a number of them particular couple of the larger emerging economies looking at what is or what was on the table in the doha round and realize even though this one is not going anywhere and believe me it's not going anywhere, the next iteration they realized it's not going to be a sweet and whenever the next is going to be, particularly on industrial goods that there will be a differentiation between developing countries and developing countries and that the larger developing countries are going to be treated the same way as the smaller, poorer

now, ambassador zia, last time we talked it was in riyadh and you are now in doha and it would be very, very interesting to get your assessment of economic opportunities doha and things that are interested. >> thank you very much. as my two colleagues from saudi arabia and from the united arab emirates have said, the same thing is true for qatar, we are open for business and we are open for business with a great interest on u.s. products, u.s. services and u.s. technical know how and opportunities for joint ventures and investments both in qatar and investments in other parts of the world or the united states. qatar is the world's richest state per capita. it has the highest gdp in the world. it is also the world's leading supplier of liquefied natural gas. in 2011 alone qatar's gdp rose 20%. and it is estimated in 2012 to rise at a slower rate, but still 6% to 12% which is a healthy rate in any standard, but particularly in these economic times and a lot of the drive on this has been due to the amir of qatar, sheikh khalid who has developed a vision for his country over the last 15 ye

my friend to my left thing is that doha is dead. i believe there is a way to bring back. >> i'm still to your left. [laughter] >> no change at all there. i believe doha could contribute to those of five strategies i just mentioned. a simple package that would harvest some gains. i would move forward if i had a chance to do so. i think the trans-pacific partnership could be grade. the stated goal is to bring together economies from across the pacific into a single trading community to serve as a platform for broader regional integration and a free-trade area of the asia-pacific. the trans-pacific partnership involves nine nations. we have trade agreements with four of the nine. brunei, new zealand, malaysia, be add-nam' would ons. the potential for trade would be quite small. china, japan, india, south korea are not included and they account for over 75% of gdt of dp of asia. so mexico and japan, that would add real heft. after these leaders -- the canadian prime minister, president obama, and president calderon met. the administrati

my friend to my left thinks doha is dead. i agree is on life support plan also believe there's a way to bring it back. >> and he's still on my left. [laughter] >> no change at all. and i believe doha could contribute to the strategies i just mentioned but i don't have time in my five minutes to go through but i will tell you there's a simple package that would harvest some games and i would move forward if i had the chance to do so. now the trans-pacific partnership is the only trade agreement this administration is negotiating and i think it could great. the stated goal, and i quote is to bring together economies from across the pacific developed and developing into a single trading community to serve as a platform for the broader regional integration, and eventually a free trade area of the asia-pacific. now, as mckee has mentioned, the trans-pacific partnership involves nine nations. we have trade agreements with singapore, chile, australia and peru. four of the nine command new zealand, malaysia and vietnam would be add-o

. >> reporter: the foreign ministers of the six-member gulf cooperation council met in doha, qatar, at the request of the uae. they issued a statement condemning the visit by the iranian president as provocative. they also said it was in clear violation of the uae sovereignty over the islands. iran has controlled the islands since 1971 after britain withdrew from the region. since then, an and the united arab emirates claimed sovereignty over the islands. president ahmadinejad remains firm on iran's claim. he stressed that the iranian army will not allow any hostile act on his territory. on wednesday, iran's foreign ministry told reporters that the statement by the persian gulf nations is groundless and interferes in iran's internal affairs. iran's parliament also issued a condemnation of the country's latest move. iran and the gulf nations are already at odds over iran's nuclear development. the latest route over the islands could further increase tensions between the persian gulf nations. nhk world, tehran. >>> afghanistan says it's going to need a huge amount of foreign aid to maint

officials of the gulf cooperation council not doha, qatar.hey issued a statement condemning the visit as provocative and a violation of the uae's sovereignty over the islands. ahmadinejad remains firm. he says the iranian army will not allow any hostile act on its territory. the pro-u.s. gulf countries already at odds with iran over its nuclear development program. the latest row over the islands is adding to the tension. iran has controlled the islands since 1971. seven gulf emirates gained full independence from britain that year and formed the uae. >>> the governor of tokyo has stirreup a controversy over a chain of islands in the east china sea. he infuriated chinese leaders by suggesting his government plans to buy the senkaku islands. he spoke to reporters in washington one day after he announced the plan in a lecture at a u.s. think tank. he says the u.s. government was negotiate with the owner to purchase three of the islands. japan's chief cabinet secretary responded to the plan by suggesting the central government could buy them if

. >> the company is receiving inquiries from around the globe, and 20 projects from doha to shanghai planned already. he looks forward to seeing the results of his efforts closer to home. a new media office audit such a lot of the parking garage of bremen airport. >> that is it from both of us for now. you're watching the "journal" coming to you from berlin. >> stay with us on dw can find out more on our website, dw.de. see you soon. ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ ♪ ♪

words and final papers, don't allow protection, we refuse protectionists, we are going to conclude the doha round, and so on. and exactly the day after, 15 out of 20 participants in the g-20 used to increase tariffs in their trades. with the exception of mexico. right in the middle of the crisis. even without understanding of several sectors of private -- of the society in mexico, we reduced tariffs. and actually, we reduced from 11% on that reduction, 2006, to 44% today on average. and with that mexico got a lot of competitiveness. why? because most of the trade today is not trade related with final products, is not trade related with capital products. it's a middle products trade. and with that the companies, especially the manufacturer's companies are getting a lot of competitiveness in our country. in other words, if you are able to get the cheapest inputs and the high quality inputs for your products, for instance, for this blackberry, you are able to get the best inputs for your products, you will be able to produce 65% of the blackberry in the world in guadalajara city in mexico. and

summit games among them and japan and spain have hosted the lympics previously but istanbul in turkey doha in qatar and back with azerbaijan hoping to host the event for the very first time the shortlist of candidates is expected at the end of may russia's closest neighbor azerbaijan who lost their two thousand and sixteen bed hoping for success this time around. just walk us through the idea that we have just built a wonderful palace for the euro vision sunken says the inmate which can fit more than twenty thousand after that it will be used as a support site last year with built a large exit vision sensor which we could really just put it in pics if we win that will build golf courses and other been used for sports that developed in our country just yet we would certainly build some objects from scratch although we do have a lot of facilities in place the twenty four teams such experience will play a very important role for us we will watch and learn not so much about the building of sports facilities but rather about organizing such issues as security protection transport and so on russ

third, i'm going to say doha is dead. why don't we just admit it to each other. and as a there are certain things that are critical we can get done. for instance, as charlene can tell you the questions and answers, the i.t. agreement she did so well on the telecom agreement and financial service agreement or what, 15-years-old, 17-years-old? looked at what has happened just in the information technology since then. we were in the dark ages 17 years ago. we have to redo these agreements it makes them more effective than they are. we have a great opportunity. we ought to look at the financial-services the same as telecom. second, we need to work and deal with the workers' rights and the environment, multilaterally beef to protect intellectual property and have the effect of investment protecting as well. agriculture was to be a separate negotiation and a separate agreement. we agreed to do it and haven't done that it's time to turn and you can talk about that turn and do something about we have a chance in these areas in these areas to make some great progress if w

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