{"id":66198,"date":"2016-03-18T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/dg-azevedo-south-africas-leadership-vital-for-future-trade-talks\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:00:34","slug":"dg-azevedo-south-africas-leadership-vital-for-future-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/dg-azevedo-south-africas-leadership-vital-for-future-trade-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"DG Azev\u00eado: South Africa\u2019s leadership vital for future trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> GENEVA, Switzerland, March 17, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>WTO Director-General Roberto Azev\u00eado held a series of meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, today to discuss recent WTO agreements and the future work of the organization. He met with the Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana, and the Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Director-General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outlook for the global economy is currently very mixed. Many countries, including South Africa, are being affected by low commodity prices and a number of other factors.\u00a0In this context it is vital to ensure that the global trading system continues to support growth, development and job creation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe successful trade deals struck at the WTO\u2019s Nairobi Ministerial Conference in December last year \u2014 and at the Bali Ministerial Conference in 2013 \u2014 show what we can achieve. Now we must work together to implement those deals, realize their benefits, and seek to\u00a0be even more ambitious in the way ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa has a long history in the multilateral trading system and has always played a central role in the WTO.\u00a0With the organization now embarking on a debate which will shape future global trade talks, South Africa\u2019s leadership will be more important than ever.\u00a0This is an opportunity to ensure that the global trading system delivers even more, and that it continues to serve the development goals of the country, and the whole region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General also held meetings with\u00a0representatives of the National Economic Development  Labour Council (NEDLAC) and\u00a0the Chair of the Parliamentary Trade and Industry Portfolio Committee, Joanmariae Louise Fubbs MP, as well as some other members of the Committee,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA, Switzerland, March 17, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; WTO Director-General Roberto Azev\u00eado held a series of meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, today to discuss recent WTO agreements and the future work of the organization. He met with the Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-66198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","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\/66198","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=66198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}