{"id":14260,"date":"2012-09-05T03:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/corrected-candidates-prepare-for-race-to-succeed-lamy-as-head-of-wto\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T03:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:41:58","slug":"corrected-candidates-prepare-for-race-to-succeed-lamy-as-head-of-wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/corrected-candidates-prepare-for-race-to-succeed-lamy-as-head-of-wto\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED-Candidates prepare for race to succeed Lamy as head of WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Removes incorrect reference to Lamy attending AU meeting in<br \/>\nJuly)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Miles<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">GENEVA, Sept 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Candidates to replace Pascal Lamy<br \/>\nas head of the World Trade Organization when the Frenchman steps<br \/>\ndown in a year&#8217;s time are warming up for a contest that looks<br \/>\nlikely to become another round of international horse trading.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emerging market countries will want to see one of their own<br \/>\nin charge of the Geneva-based trading club, after the top jobs<br \/>\nat the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank went to a<br \/>\nEuropean and an American.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But there are already signs that developing nations will<br \/>\nsquabble over the identity of their candidate, meaning the race<br \/>\nfor the job overseeing negotiations to reform global farm<br \/>\nsubsidies, customs and trading rules is wide open.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a multi-dimensional chess game,&#8221; said one ambassador<br \/>\nto the WTO. &#8220;As in any election, you have to choose the best<br \/>\nmoment to put your cards on the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lamy&#8217;s tenure at the WTO has been marked by Russia&#8217;s<br \/>\naccession last month, and disputes, notably a trans-Atlantic row<br \/>\nover aircraft subsidies between Boeing and Airbus. But<br \/>\nmost of all, it has been overshadowed by the failure to agree on<br \/>\nany reform of the world trade rules.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whoever succeeds him will find unfinished negotiations over<br \/>\ntrade liberalisation and competing claims from different<br \/>\nregional and economic blocs about what the next steps should be.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reviving the Doha round of trade talks risks getting bogged<br \/>\ndown in old arguments and driving the WTO into obsolescence but<br \/>\na bold bid to shake things up is bound to be divisive.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Removes incorrect reference to Lamy attending AU meeting in July) By Tom Miles GENEVA, Sept 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Candidates to replace Pascal Lamy as head of the World Trade Organization when the Frenchman steps down in a year&#8217;s time are warming up for a contest that looks likely to become another round of international horse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}