The Minister of the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced that it had approved Friday, June 17 in Geneva
“historic”
agreements on fishing, the lifting of anti-Covid patents and food insecurity.
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It is
“an unprecedented set of results.
It has been a long time since the WTO has achieved so many multilateral results.
The results demonstrate that the WTO is capable of responding to the urgent needs of our time
,” said WTO director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, before the heads of delegation of the organization's 164 member countries.