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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9776

6 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Pascal Lamy requests second mandate at head of WTO

Brussels, 05/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - In an attempt to complete Doha round negotiations on the liberalisation of world trade at a time when the international financial maelstrom is stoking up protectionist tendencies, the Director General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, is requesting a second mandate, once the current mandate expires on 31 August 2009. Elected on 26 May 2005, the 61 year old French man and former European Commissioner for trade, began work on the following 1 September and has made...

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