The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called on members of the global trade body to use the platform for dialogue and to engage on the issues contributing to the current global trade tensions.
Okonjo-Iweala stated this while speaking at the 2025 meeting of the WTO’s General Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her admonition came as China’s Ambassador to the WTO, Li Chenggang voiced strong concern over the US unilateral imposition of tariffs and their harmful effects, calling on her to remove these measures and urged all parties to take meaningful action to uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system, which resonated deeply with the audience.