Ambassadors to assist chief in trade mediation

WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Roberto Azevedo will begin consulting with WTO ambassadors today to try to work out how to pick up the pieces after global trade negotiations appeared to suffer a final defeat yesterday. “Whether, and how, we make progress will be in your hands,” Azevedo told the envoys at a meeting of the general council. Some diplomats said that the meeting was the final deadline for India to stop blocking a global agreement or they might give up negotiating and split off into smaller groups instead. That would undermine the role of the WTO. – Reuters