African trade ministers and officials are approaching the fifth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial talks that began in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, with low expectations. Since the collapse of the WTO's 1999 session in Seattle, Washington, the organisation has struggled to come up with a new world treaty on trade. It took about two years before trade ministers met in Doha, Qatar in November 2001 and gave themselves three years to complete work on a new treaty.
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