WTO director-general says world order has changed irrevocably

The global system as we once knew it has changed, and the time has come to move forward, to reform, and above all to rethink the founding rules of the World Trade Organization.

In essence, this is the objective of the WTO’s four days of meetings and inter-ministerial sessions taking place in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, since Thursday.

Its director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the multilateral system ‌has fundamentally…