WTO's dispute-settlement procedures also need urgent overhaul to stop such rows festering in future.
This dispute-settlement mechanism is meant to have teeth, since a country cannot veto unfavourable rulings.
This applies to the new dispute-settlement rules as much as to anything else: every member government has agreed to them as well.
They even agreed to set up a monitoring group, to check whether members are living up to their commitments, and a dispute-settlement procedure.
WTO's dispute-settlement mechanism is not as effective as it should be.
Accountancy and methods of dispute-settlement are still in their infancy.
But without the risk of a dispute-settlement case, other countries would feel free to maintain whatever trade barriers they liked against imports from the recalcitrant country, or even to put up some new ones.
Less than a week after CES, nVidia and Intel announced a settlement to their long-standing legal dispute.
Another roadblock to a peace settlement was a dispute over a small piece of government-held territory in northern Bosnia.
The first such dispute has already arisen: Mr Netanyahu's ten-month moratorium on settlement building ends on September 26th.
But none of this necessarily means that thinking has changed enough to keep talks going once started, let alone to produce a settlement to a dispute that has brought about two wars and a 12-year insurgency involving some 35, 000 deaths.
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