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WTO lets "poor" countries push "rich" countries around.

Poor countries want "to build concrete content on development questions, specific commitments, concrete deadlines" from richer nations on agriculture and development issues, Kenyan Trade Minister Mukhisa Kituyi said.

"For developing countries and particular Africa ... trade is life," he said. "People don't appreciate when we say we need fair trade, we need abolition of farm subsidies. Our poverty in anchored on inbalanced trade

Manesser, who is set to present the poor nations' demands at the Mombasa talks, said a refusal by the west to concede would doom the Hong Kong ministerial to failure.

Is the WTO really about free trade?

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On Friday, ministers will discuss farm subsidies, which poor nations are demanding rich countries massively cut, arguing that the subsidies undercut the competitive advantage of one of their main revenue sources.