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Fri 08 Aug 2003Farmers and Third World groups urged to agree joint policy on tradeFarmers and Third World activists should agree a common position on trade liberalisation, including access to European markets for exports from poor countries, according to the Minister of State for Development Co-operation, Mr Tom Kitt.Mr Kitt, who is one of three Government Ministers attending next month's trade talks in Cancun, Mexico, said he was confident there was sufficient common ground between the two groups. This was especially true since the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy announced last June. He pledged to facilitate talks if this was required.