Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his opening remarks to the WTO Public Forum on 25 September 2006, noted the “frustration and regret” of WTO members, academia and civil society over the risk of “losing a major — maybe unique — opportunity to integrate more vulnerable economies into international trade, and undermining their potential for contributing to sustainable growth and poverty alleviation”.
This is what he said:
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