The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced on Friday that it had approved “historic” Geneva fisheries agreements, the removal of anti-COVID patents and food insecurity.
This is an unprecedented set of results. It’s been a long time, tooWTO did not obtain such a large number of multilateral results. The results show thatWTO is able to respond to the needs of our timesaid the director ofWTO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in front of the heads of the delegation of the 164 member countries of the organization.
The conference aims not only to address the food insecurity created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it also wants to remove subsidies that facilitate overfishing flowing into the oceans, temporarily removing patents. which protects vaccines against COVID or even reform theWTO Himself.
After several days of intense negotiations, marked by much uncertainty and uncertainty of India in some texts, the negotiators finally agreed on all these topics, announced the President of the Ministerial Conference Timur Suleimenov , Head of the Deputy Cabinet of the President of Kazakhstan.
L ‘WTO however, the final texts were not immediately published.
The next conference in 2023
Today you actually got your salarylaunched Ms. Ngozi to the ambassadors.
After this long hour of negotiation, he admitted he didn’t really know anymore where I am and where I sit .
But despite the fatigue, he has already called on delegations to maintain momentum.
We still have work. I saw what we could dohe continued.
Two countries have already offered to host the next ministerial conference – Cameroon and the United Arab Emirates – which should take place by the end of 2023, Mr Suleimenov announced.
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Source: Radio-Canada
