World Trade Organisation’s new chief pushes for fisheries deal

World Trade Organisation’s new chief pushes for fisheries deal
New Director-General of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, centre (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP)

The new head of the World Trade Organisation has thrown her support behind efforts among member countries to agree on fisheries subsidies that could reduce overfishing.

Director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former government minister, called the efforts a top priority on her first day at the WTO headquarters on the banks of Lake Geneva.

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