WTO chief voices concern with slow progress in key negotiating areas
The Dollar Business Bureau Roberto Azevedo, Director General, World Trade Organisation. Unhappy over not making the progress that is needed in the key areas of agriculture, industrial products and services, Roberto Azevedo, Director General (DG), World Trade Organisation (WTO) convened a meeting of all members in Geneva on June 1, 2015. The meeting discussed the current state of play in negotiations on the work programme to advance the remaining issues of the Doha Development Agenda. The Doha Round is the latest round of trade negotiations among the WTO membership. Its aim is to achieve major reform of the international trading system through the introduction of lower trade barriers and revised trade rules. The DG said, “I will ensure that meetings of ...
