Former New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore

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Series Details 22/08/99, Volume 5, Number 29
Publication Date 22/07/1999
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Date: 22/07/1999

is set to become the new director-general of the World Trade Organisation in a split-term solution to the long battle to find a new head before the Millennium Round of global trade talks gets underway in November. Ambassadors from the 134 WTO member countries have backed a plan to appoint Moore to the post until late 2002, when he will be replaced by his rival, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Panitchpakdi Supachai.

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