New Delhi, Sept 15: As weary ministers fly out of this glitzy beach resort on Monday following the dramatic collapse of world free trade talks, one group at least feels it has something to smile about. A new alliance of more than 20 developing countries, with Brazil, India and China at its heart, emerged as a major force during five days of ultimately fruitless discussions at this Mexican beach resort and looks set to stay a power in world trade politics.
The World Trade Organization's 146 member states must now try to rescue something from the wreckage of the Cancun summit, which had been intended to inject new momentum into the WTO's stalled global free trade negotiations.
States remain deeply divided, notably over how far and how fast to reform world farm trade to cut the massive subsidies that rich states pay their farmers and which developing countries say stop from competing them.

The European Union's main trade negotiator, Pascal Lamy, and other top officials were adamant that the search for a deal, which could give a multibillion boost to a sluggish world economy, would continue back at WTO headquarters in Geneva.
And the new alliance of developing nations was equally firm that its newfound voice would continue to be heard loud and clear. Bureau Report