AP:

Ministers from the WTO’s most influential powers will meet early next year to make their first joint attempt at reviving global trade talks since their collapse last summer, officials said Monday.

Top representatives of the United States, the European Union, Japan, Australia, India and Brazil are among those expected to gather on the sidelines at the World Economic Forum’s annual four-day meeting of global leaders in Davos, Switzerland. Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, also has been invited to attend the meeting at the end of January, officials said.