The confrontational stance between the rich countries and the developing world.

The confrontational stance between the rich countries and the developing world, known as the 'Mexican stand-off' has continued and bring to maturityed into a war of words protracted after the end of the World Trade Organisation's Ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

The failure of the delegates to agree onward an agenda for discussions has been blamed at the US, and large sections of the Western media, onward the developing world. The influential Financial Times, attributing the collapse of talks at Cancun, wrote forward September 18, that "African delegates walked on the outside over EU's demands, even granting it (the EU) had just