Brazil: unfair to single out emerging countries in Doha

Published: 24 Jun 2009 07:01:04 PST

PARIS, June 24 - Singling out emerging countries like Brazil, China and India to make more concessions in the World Trade Organisation's Doha round talks is totally unfair, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Wednesday.

Amorim was commenting at a news conference on U.S. calls for the big emerging countries to open up their markets further to help bring about a deal. But he said Brazil remained open to dialogue with the United States on the Doha talks even though it does not want the negotiations reopened from scratch.

Amorim also said that from what he had "heard so far", there was not enough on the table for next month's G8+5 summit of rich and emerging economies in Italy to make substantial progress on the Doha talks.