Brazil, Mexico top WTO leadership race

announcement has yet to be made, the Brazilian media are stressing the importance of having someone “from the developing world” at the helm of the multilateral trade institution. They also highlighted Brazilian candidate Roberto Azevedo, who has been the country’s WTO permanent representative since 2008 and lead negotiator in the Doha Development Round. Azevedo has a long career in Brazil’s foreign service, which he joined in 1984, and deep knowledge about the WTO and experience in the institution, Brazilian media said. Zealand splitting the post, in the wake of Irish and Italian chiefs. — Xinhua.

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