WTO chief says 'cautiously optimistic' ahead of high-stakes meet

WTO chief says 'cautiously optimistic' ahead of high-stakes meet
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Sunday 12 June 2022 - 12:06

The World Trade Organization chief said Sunday that she was “cautiously optimistic” that ministers would manage to conclude some agreements during a high-stakes meeting in Geneva this week.

Speaking just hours before the opening of the WTO’s first ministerial meeting in nearly five years, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said “I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll get one or two deliverables,” on a multitude of pressing issues on the table, from overfishing to addressing the still raging pandemic and a looming global hunger crisis.

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