WTO meeting to go ahead - papers 22 October

The much anticipated World Trade Organisation meeting is set to go ahead in Qatar's capital Doha after assurances from the US that it would do everything it could to attend. The FT points out that the meeting will become the second major meeting of heads of state following the APEC conference just ended in Shanghai. Many countries are eager to start another round of trade talk negotiations following recent terrorist events - if only to show that the world will continue to function largely as normal - but there are other reasons too, such as China's forthcoming official entry into t...