{"id":6514,"date":"2013-05-07T18:40:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:40:31","slug":"wto-set-to-pick-new-leader-amid-talks-deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=6514","title":{"rendered":"WTO set to pick new leader, amid talks deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576-\u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b-\u0576\u0578\u0580-\u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6512\" alt=\"4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576 \u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b \u0576\u0578\u0580 \u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576-\u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b-\u0576\u0578\u0580-\u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576-\u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b-\u0576\u0578\u0580-\u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b.jpg 512w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576-\u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b-\u0576\u0578\u0580-\u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/4\u0531\u0540\u053f-\u0576-\u056f\u0568\u0576\u057f\u0580\u056b-\u0576\u0578\u0580-\u0572\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e\u0561\u0580\u056b-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/em>The World Trade Organisation is close to choosing its next leader in a final round pitting Brazil against Mexico, with the winner facing the tough task of restoring the clout of global commerce&#8217;s rule-setting body.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s WTO ambassador Roberto Azevedo and his rival Herminio Blanco, Mexico&#8217;s former trade minister, are expected to learn as early as Tuesday whether they have won a contest that is seen as too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>All concerned are keenly aware that the successor to two-term director general Pascal Lamy from France must act fast to revive the WTO&#8217;s moribund global trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have pitched a similar vision for a negotiating process which they say needs overhauling.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco, meanwhile, said it was time to reboot the 159-nation WTO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main challenge is the &#8216;W&#8217; in &#8216;WTO&#8217;,&#8221; he told AFP, underlining that the logjam had pushed members into negotiating bilateral and regional deals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to transfer this energy back to Geneva,&#8221; where the WTO is based, to prove the point and reach of the organisation, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Trade Organisation is close to choosing its next leader in a final round&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}