DG Azevêdo: Business community provides energy and ideas to help progress at WTO

At a meeting organized in Paris by the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on 22 May 2019, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo provided an update on the state of play in global trade and on discussions about the reform of the WTO. He welcomed the positive engagement of the business community in recent years, and encouraged businesses to continue to engage and to help drive forward the debate on WTO issues. Noting the WTO’s positive collaboration with business and other stakeholders through the “trade dialogues” initiative, DG Azevêdo welcomed the announcement by the ICC and B20 of a new online platform to facilitate this debate. This is what he said:

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