Candidates vie for WTO top spot

Worldwide, Daily news | | January 29, 2013 16:54

Candidates from nine mainly developing nations face off this week for the job of reviving stalled global trade talks as the new head of the World Trade Organization.

Six men and three women, many of them current or former government ministers, have thrown their hat into the ring to replace Frenchman Pascal Lamy as head of the WTO.
“It is very good for the organisation to have so many candidates with so much experience and knowledge of the WTO system,” agency spokesman Keith Rockwell told the Swiss news agency ATS Monday.
The candidates, the largest number to vie for the top post since the WTO was created in 1995, face the WTO’s general council over three days beginning Tuesday as the selection process gets underway.
The director general’s main mission is to help advance global trade negotiations that aim to spur growth by opening markets and removing trade barriers, including subsidies, excessive taxes and regulations.
“There is no advance voting in the regional groups (of WTO’s 158 member countries), but the principle that the next director general should be from a developing country enjoys broad support,” Rockwell told ATS.
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