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talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP),
a sweeping U.S.-European free trade deal, the United States has
also blocked a European call to replace private arbitration
tribunals, responsible for corporative lawsuits, with a public
state model, the reports said.
The media outlets said they obtained 240 pages of internal
negotiations documents from the environment group Greenpeace.
Several people familiar with the negotiations confirmed that the
documents were current, the media said.
The documents suggest the United States is putting more pressure
on the European Union in ongoing negotiations for a
transatlantic free trade deal than previously thought, the media
outlets said.
The top negotiators trying to reach agreement on the trade deal
avoided agriculture, public procurement and other thorny issues
in talks last week.
Instead, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Daniel Mullaney and
European Commission lead negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercera said
on Friday, they concentrated on less controversial areas such as
small and medium enterprises and technical language.
But both insisted after their 13th negotiating round in New York
that they can still reach an agreement this year before U.S.
President Barack Obama leaves office in January.
Greenpeace said in a statement it will give a news conference on
the documents in Berlin on Monday 0900 GMT (0500 ET).
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber, editing by Larry King)
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