The trade liberalization framework presented to the WTO General Council is a betrayal of the world’s poor, according to the Asian trade policy research NGO, Focus o­n the Global South. Speaking in Geneva, their senior trade analyst Aileen Kwa said that the current negotiations are being used by the rich industrialized countries – especially the US and the EU – to force open developing country markets and to hide their own massive agricultural subsidies. "If the proposed framework is implemented, the inevitable result will be deindustrialization of the developing world and the end of small-scale farming," said Kwa. "Millions of workers will lose their jobs and millions of farmers will lose their livelihoods."