Lamy Calls on Decision-Makers to Move the WTO Negotiations

A round-up of WTO news over the past week and a preview of upcoming events.
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Lamy Calls on Decision-Makers to Move the WTO Negotiations Forward

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Singapore Schuman Lecture Series of the European Chamber of Commerce in Singapore on 21 September 2012, said that the “the impasse in the negotiations is political and must be addressed at the political level if we want the multilateral trading system to contribute to exiting the crisis, sooner rather than later.”
Speech: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl247_e.htm

WTO PUBLIC FORUM TO DISCUSS “IS MULTILATERALISM IN CRISIS?”
Over 1,300 participants from civil society, universities, businesses and governments will take up the question of whether multilateralism is in crisis at the WTO’s annual Public Forum from 24 to 26 September.
Press release: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres12_e/pr677_e.htm

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