The WTO's 148 members were regrouping in Geneva to hear about the outcome of an attempt by Brazil, the European Union, India, Japan and the United States to drive ahead deadlocked global trade talks at a meeting in London on Monday.

With just over a month to go before the WTO's keynote ministerial conference, India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath -- who hosted the London talks at his country's embassy -- hinted Monday that the goals for Hong Kong may have to be downgraded.

Nath, who appeared to have the backing of Brazil, insisted that this would not affect the overall Doha Round, which trading nations hope to complete in 2006 in an attempt to boost developing countries.

Brazil's foreign minister told AFP as he was leaving London that he expected a decision to be made by the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy in Geneva on Tuesday.

"That's something we'll have to decide today, we'll make an evaluation. But if that happened it doesn't mean lowering the ambition of the round," Amorim said.

"This decision will basically be taken by Lamy, I think he'll make an evaluation today," he added.

However, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson urged countries to press ahead.

"I am not in the business of scaling down ambition. If we do not deliver ambitiously on the Doha Round as a whole we risk losing or compromising Dohas key development component. That is not acceptable to Europe," he said in a statement.

Mandelson said he was "encouraged" by the signs that emerged from the meeting of the five key WTO powers -- which represent a broad cross section of trade interests.

"I have been warning for months of the dangers of restricting our negotiations to agriculture. We have now broadened the discussions, without losing sight of agricultures importance."