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Brazil official's Nazi reference rocks WTO talks (AP)




Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, right, and Argentina's Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana front left, attend a Mercosur meeting, in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, July 14, 2008. According to Amorim, developed nations' agricultural subsidies and tariff barriers for farm goods, remain the biggest obstacle to an agreement on the long-stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization talks. Mercosur members are Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Bolivia. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Some pre-negotiation jabbing turned into a potentially damaging diplomatic incident Saturday when Brazil's foreign minister said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.





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