US fully committed to reaching agreement in WTO talks, says Bush

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2006

VIENNA (AFP) — US President George W. Bush insisted that the United States was fully committed to reaching an agreement to reduce global trade barriers in the current Doha round of negotiations.

Bush's pledge, issued here after an EU-US summit, followed a warning from the European Commission that the troubled Doha talks, launched in late 2001, were dead unless the United States made more trade concessions.

"We're committed to a successful round and it's going to take hard work ... My pledge to our European counterparts is we'll do the very best we can to reach an agreement that satisfies all parties' desires," Bush said after meeting European Union leaders in the Austrian capital.

"The Europeans have problems with the US position, we have problems with the...