WTO director-general frustrated with lack of progress in naming chairs

The World Trade Organization director-general on Wednesday expressed frustration with members’ inability to attend to a “simple housekeeping matter” of appointing new chairs for the agriculture and fisheries subsidies negotiations. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told members during a meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee, which the director-general chairs, that the organization has failed so far to capitalize on the momentum of the 12th ministerial conference, at one point mentioning the ongoing impasse over the chairs, according to WTO spokesperson Daniel Pruzin...