Ho, Oct 8, GNA – The World Trade Organization (WTO) has officially announced that Nigeria’s candidate, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and South Korea’s candidate, Yoo Myung-hee, have made it to the final of the race for the organization’s Director-General.
WTO spokesman, Keith Rockwell, WTO spokesman disclosed this to reporters at the WTO headquarters in Geneva after the results were announced to member states at a meeting.
The spokesman said, “Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria and Korean Minister Yoo Myung-hee will advance to the third and final stage of consultations.
The third stage will run from October 19 to October 27 with a winner to be announced before November 7. Both of the women that are in the final round are remarkably well-qualified. This is something on which everyone has agreed.”
The two finalists advanced ahead of Britain’s Liam Fox, Kenya’s Amina Mohamed, and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad al-Tuwaijri who failed to get enough backing from the WTO’s 164 members in the second round of the battle to become the next Director-General of the WTO.
Since the WTO’s establishment in 1995, this would be the first time that it would appoint a female leader.
The two candidates are remarkably well-qualified and possess lots of experience to lead the organisation.
The race is going down to the wire.
GNA