If we were to turn our back on Colombia by rejecting the free tradeagreement, it would send a terrible signal to leaders willing to be courageous. It would send a bad signal to our friends.
The talks closed as India said the new global climate change agreement should ban trade barriers erected by rich countries against those that refuse to accept limits on their carbon emissions.
An agreement to bring in free trade in cars by 2007 has been postponed. The countries that form the pact (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) failed to adopt a common stance in the Doha talks.