White House spokesman Tony Snow blamed unnamed "other allies" on Monday for the suspension of global trade talks and said that the U.S. government is still willing to be flexible on the talks.

"It would be wrong to say that they have collapsed, but what they have been is suspended," the White House spokesman said when asked about the suspension of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks.

"The United States was willing to make concessions at the table if some of our other allies wished to do so. They did not," he said. "We're still willing to be flexible."

"But on the other hand, the stuff that was on the table at Doha would never have been approved by Congress," Snow said.

He said that the U.S. government's chief trade negotiators will continue "to try to achieve the objectives of the Doha round" in the coming weeks.

The WTO's Doha Round of global trade talks was suspended on Monday after key players in the World Trade Organization failed again to reach a consensus on agriculture and industrial trade.

Source: Xinhua