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Obinna Chima and Dike Onwuamaeze The United States has suggested that the process of finding a new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which is almost completed, needs to be reopened. US President, Donald Trump’s trade chief, Robert Lighthizer, told the BBC News on Thursday that the WTO needs “someone with real experience in trade, not someone from the World Bank or a development person.” This is coming on the heels of WTO’s lamentation that the absence of a substantive director general is hurting its operations. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian minister ...

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Views: Visits 84 The United States has suggested that the process to find a new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) needs to be reopened. According to BBC, Robert Lighthizer, US trade representative said the WTO needs someone with real experience in trade, not someone from the World Bank or a development person. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian minister of finance and former managing director (MD) of the World Bank, had got the support of 110 out of 164 member countries but the US opposed her candidacy. The trade organisation operates based on consensus, that ...