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The fourth round of negotiations began in Geneva on March 18 and ended on March 24, 2002.

• Tobacco Treaty Negotiations Stall As U.S. Continues Efforts to Weaken Key Provisions [03/25/02]
  
• INB4 Negotiations Update [03/23/02]
• Majority of Nations Support Strong Treaty But Small Minority Hamper Progress [03/23/02]
• WHO Tobacco Control Talks Threaten to Stall - Reuters Health [03/22/02]
• Tobacco giants accused of tricks [03/23/02]
• Framework Convention Update [03/20/02]
• WHO backs lawsuits against tobacco giants [03/19/02]
• WHO offers help to sue tobacco firms [03/19/02]
• WHO urges lawsuits in battle against tobacco - Financial Times [03/19/02]
• Tobacco company attacked over lobbying tactics [03/19/02]
• Tobacco industry accused of foul practice [03/18/02]
• New Report Exposes Philip Morris’s Efforts To Undermine International Tobacco Control Treaty [03/18/02]
• UN May Help Governments Take Legal Action vs Tobacco Companies [03/18/02]
• New talks on tobacco treaty begin - WHO warns of explosion of smoking-related deaths [03/18/02]
• FCA Updates [03/18/02]
• New Tobacco Reduction Talks Resume [03/18/02]
• Fourth round of FCTC negotiations begin in Geneva [03/18/02]
• Declaration by the Latin American and the Caribbean Countries on the FCTC [03/07/02]
• MARCH 18 2002
• The world is accustomed to thinking of the law as an instrument of justice, but not as an instrument of
  health. We expect epidemics to be defeated in the clinic or the community, not in the courtroom. . . It is time
  that the tools of law be harnessed in the service of global health and global justice.
  WHO's latest report explores litigation around the world, and examines the use of the secret documents. Towards health with justice (PDF), World Health Organization (WHO), Monday, March 18, 2002
  [We must] define the international crime of tobacco. Those behind it have to face an international tribunal
  for their ongoing crimes and past behavior. . . The consequences of some acts are so horrific that their
  illegality transcends the boundaries of any local law. Indeed, the concept of 'banality of evil' is apt here.
  People who are considered honorable citizens, good family people, members of the mainstream of society,
  and yet their day-to-day functions involve the deaths of tens of millions - deaths that are masterminded not
  with knives and bullets, but at a managerial desk. It is time that these evils remains 'banal' no longer.