1:09:02
And we just come up
to level three, then?
1:09:04
Great. Thank you very much.
All right. Bye-bye.
1:09:07
Run!
1:09:13
Oh, wait. Shit!
This is the building!
1:09:15
- Thank you for coming.
- Thank you for having us.
1:09:17
Sorry for the confusion
and problems and everything else.
1:09:21
It's to be expected
these days, I think.
1:09:24
No. Thanks for going out of your way
to arrange this. This is really terrific.
1:09:33
Thank you all for coming.
I'd like to...
1:09:37
I'd like to thank the organizers
for going out of their way
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to create this panel,
this luncheon,
1:09:45
in the face of some odds-the conference
having been canceled, of course.
1:09:49
And I'd especially like to begin
1:09:51
by apologizing for a rather sudden
change in the program,
1:09:55
consequent upon a rather dramatic
development in Geneva yesterday.
1:10:01
I originally intended to transmit today
an upbeat report
1:10:05
on some new technologies that affect
agribusiness in a global sense.
1:10:10
Instead, I find myself the messenger
of some rather disturbing news.
1:10:14
The WTO will be issuing
a public statement
1:10:17
in detail by the end of the week.
1:10:19
But the die has been cast.
1:10:21
As of September 2002,
1:10:23
having seen the effects of policies
1:10:26
whose only intent was to bring
greater prosperity and peace,
1:10:29
the World Trade Organization,
in its present form, will cease to exist.
1:10:35
Over the next two years,
1:10:36
we at the WTO will endeavor to re-found
our organization along different lines,
1:10:41
based in a different understanding
of the purposes of world trade.
1:10:46
The new organization will have
as its foundation and basis
1:10:49
the United Nations'
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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upon which we feel
we can make a good foundation
1:10:57
to ensuring that the organization
will have human