The World Trade Organization (WTO) has narrowed the race to become the head of the organization to five candidates, after the exclusion of candidates from Mexico (Jesus Saede Kuri), Egypt (Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh) and Moldova (Tudor Iluanovschi).), as reported by the institution based in Geneva (Switzerland) this Friday (18.09.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX) in a release.
After consulting with WTO member countries, the chairman of the General Council of the body, David Walker, has decided that theThe candidates who will move on to the second phase of the process are Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria), Yoo Muyng-hee (South Korea), Amina Mohamed (Kenya), Mohammad Maziad Al-Tuwajiri (Saudi Arabia) and Liam Fox (United Kingdom).
«During the six days of consultations, it has been clear that all members are engaged and participative in the process.", Walker explained.
The new consultation phase to further reduce the number of candidates will begin on September 24 and will end on October 6th. The aim is to continue asking countries to report their two preferred candidates. At the end of this stage, the number of candidates will be reduced from five to two.
Following this phase, Walker will convene a meeting with the heads of delegation to report on the results. It will not be until the final candidates are known that the WTO will decide when the third round of consultations will take place.
Brazilian Azevedo left his post as Director-General of the WTO on 31 August 2020.
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