More importantly, Lamy said, new trade talks would bring together all of the WTO’s 142 members-including the newest adherents, chaina and Taiwan-signalling global unity at a time of deep crisis. The meeting in Doha, he said, would also provide concrete evidence to developing Islamic nations-many of which could face domestic uprisings if the U.S. presses ahead with military strikes against the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan-that industrial nations are not ready to accept a division of the world based on religion.