(1) WTO ministers remain sharply divided on farm trade

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's farm minister Tadamori Oshima (L) shakes hands with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick on Feb. 15 at a Tokyo hotel before trade and farm ministers of 22 selected economies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) begin the second-day session of a three-day informal ministerial conference. The ministers remained sharply divided over the contentious issue of agriculture trade.

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