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Demonstration against WTO meet
Montreal, July 28: Some 200 protesters opposed to the World Trade Organization`s informal meeting here smashed store windows on Montreal`s main commercial street, just hours before the three-day gathering of some 25 trade ministers was scheduled to start.
Montreal, July 28: Some 200 protesters opposed to the World Trade Organization's informal meeting here smashed store windows on Montreal's main commercial street, just hours before the three-day gathering of some 25 trade ministers was scheduled to start.
Demonstrators targetted a Burger King restaurant and a gap clothing store on the Rue Sainte-Catherine, a street brimming with shops.
Trade ministers were to seek common ground over the divisive issues of farm subsidies and medicine for poorer countries, among other issues.
The three-day meeting here is seen as crucial before the 146-member World Trade Organization's ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico in September.
Bureau Report