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New WTO boss puts vaccine supplies at top of her in-tray
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London | New World Trade Organisation boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has vowed to make the body a frontline warrior in the fight to get COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to poorer countries.
The 66-year-old former Nigerian finance minister and World Bank No. 2 was confirmed on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) by member countries as the next WTO director-general and will start her 4½-year term on March 1.
New World Trade Organisation boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: “Vaccine nationalism does not pay.”
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“I take the reins of the WTO at a time of great uncertainty and challenge,” she told reporters after the meeting. “It cannot be business as usual at the WTO.”