Carolyn Deere on the WTO DG Non-Race

It is being reported that Pascal Lamy is the only candidate for DG.  Carolyn Deere comments:

This year, with only one nominee at hand, WTO Members must nonetheless ensure that there is vigorous debate on the challenges facing the organization and the changes that the Director-General should pursue. They must then provide a clear mandate to the Director-General. Here, even in the absence of contenders, Lamy himself needs to demonstrate that he can be an agent for change by catalysing debate. He should seize the opportunity to explicitly and publicly present a forward-looking vision for the multilateral trading system, the WTO system and its Secretariat, and propose a comprehensive action plan for his second term for Members to consider.

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