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Monday, July 28, 2008
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IFA President Meets Taoiseach on WTO Negotiations

IRELAND - As livestock farmers gathered in Tullamore demanding the veto to block WTO cuts, IFA President Padraig Walshe met the Taoiseach this afternoon.

Following the meeting, Mr Walshe said he had re-iterated to the Taoiseach the damage to farmers, the food industry and rural Ireland in the WTO deal on the table in Geneva.

Padraig Walshe said the veto decision was in the Taoiseach’s hands and the livestock industry could not be sold out for Mandelson’s promises on services.

At this afternoon’s meeting, I reminded the Taoiseach that he said on June 3rd “the WTO deal would require agriculture to bear a disproportionate burden while delivering little in other sectors and is therefore unacceptable to the Government.”

At the same time he said any WTO agreement must not undermine our agricultural interests.

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