Pressure piled on delegates at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Conference to agree on contentious issues, forcing them to deliberate into the night till Friday dawn.
The meeting is said to have been tense prompting delegates to extend the talks till late in a bid to reach consensus to no avail.
Speaking to Journalists after the night, Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, said nothing much was achieved after the many hours of deliberation on matters surrounding exports in developed and developing countries..
“The issues are mostly around export competition and the dispute is not between developed and developing countries anymore, we are getting beyond that,” said Mohamed.
Matters regarding global agricultural trade were said to be critical, as Africa and other poor countries feared walking out of the discussions empty handed, with the rich countries remaining as controllers of the trade.
According to a delegate who spoke to the Standard, poor Nations had tabled their agenda on prohibition of agricultural subsidies, but by dawn nothing sisgnificant had been resolved.
Foreign negotiators are reported to have taken a break in order to freshen up at their booked hotel, before returning to the closed-door meeting.
A address to the press was finally held on Friday at 7pm, after the conference failed to reach a deal with rich countries standing their ground to retain subsidies on their agricultural products. The meeting also failed to come up with a package for the Least Developed Countries on the same matter.
The only key agreement achieved regarding the matter, was the setting of a date for a meeting on elimination of agricultural export subsidies.
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