In yet another deceitful move by rich industrialised nations to aggressively access developing country markets, the just released draft WTO Ministerial text on Services is deliberately ambiguous on whether developing countries will have any choice but to enter into services negotiations when requested to do so. Such a process would be reminiscent of the disastrous negotiations which took place on Telecoms and Financial services in the WTO in 1997. Said Aileen Kwa of Focus on the Global South, “This is the real agenda in Hong Kong. Whilst Pascal Lamy downplays Hong Kong so that everyone else is caught off guard, what is really at stake is developing countries' control over their service sectors. And that includes essential services such as water, education and healthcare.”