DDG Ellard: International trade and WTO indispensable to resolving global crises

Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard discussed the important role of international trade in addressing global crises at the Vilnius Conference in Lithuania on 8 September. She also stressed the need to reform the WTO to ensure it continues to be fit for purpose and underlined the importance of achieving outcomes at the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference to take place in Abu Dhabi next February. The full text of her speech is below.

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