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Late last year when it seemed clear that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, having won the overwhelming endorsement of majority of the member states was set to take over as chief executive of the global body, President Donald Trump, citing “lack of experience in trade matters’’, withheld its approval for Mrs Iweala, virtually stalling her appointment. A tense stand-off followed as the US stood almost alone against the world in opposition to Mrs Okonjo-Iweala’s ascension to the director-generalship of the world body.
But with the election of President Biden at the November presidential elections in the US and his pledge to discontinue President Trump’s policy of ambivalence towards international institutions, hope was rekindled that global agencies such as the WTO will once again get back into reckoning with the USA.