WTO: Trade talks won't bring deal at current pace

The World Trade Organization warned Tuesday that talks to open up the global economy were unlikely to produce a breakthrough accord by next year unless countries made significant compromises.

The assessment does not bode well for the latest deadline to conclude the WTO's struggling Doha round of global commerce talks. Leaders of the Group of 20 rich and emerging economies have pledged to wrap up a deal by the end of the 2010, but the talks have missed a number of previous targets.

WTO chief Pascal Lamy said they need "serious acceleration."

"We need to see real negotiations emerge," Lamy told a meeting of the WTO's 153 …