MC14: Five countries oppose WTO reform reports amid sharp divisions (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Yaounde)
The United States, Paraguay, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh on 27 March are understood to have opposed the Minister-Facilitators' reports on "WTO reform" at the World Trade Organization's 14th ministerial conference (MC14) in Yaounde, Cameroon, according to sources familiar with the development.

MC14: US targets S&DT self-designation as China defends rules-based system (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Yaounde)
The United States has appeared to insist during a stakeholder meeting on "Special and Differential Treatment and Development" that every member should adhere to the same rules, maintaining that the existing treaty-based self-designated process for availing of special and differential treatment (S&DT) by developing countries has been at the root of all problems at the World Trade Organization, according to participants familiar with the development.

UN: Rights chief urges US to swiftly conclude probe on Iran school strike (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Describing the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran as "a visceral horror", the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, called on the United States to conclude its investigation into the strike as soon as possible and to make its findings public.