Archive for November 2008
India to support Lamy for second term as DG
The Business Standard reports:
India is keeping its options open on supporting a candidate for the post of WTO Director- General, although Commerce Secretary G K Pillai stated that New Delhi would back Pascal Lamy for a second term.
“Lamy is going to seek re-election…we are likely to support him,” a senior Commerce Ministry official today said but quickly added, “what decision will finally be taken, ask me closer to the time of elections, not now”.
Update:
According to Reuters:
The current head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy, is the only candidate to be the next director-general, since no one has emerged to challenge him for the job, a WTO spokesman said on Monday.
