"The last years of the 20,h century, especially the failure of the Seattle Ministerial Conference in 1999, which was to be the beginning of a new negotiations round of WTO and a halt of multilateral negotiations within the new Doha Round (launched in 2001) after the Cancun Ministerial Conference collapse in 2003, although revived in July 2004 after putting in place a new negotiations framework, have become the major factor of tuming towards a new regionalism and especially free trade areas all around the world as well as in Southeast Asia."(...)