Name: U.S. rejects proposed WTO leader, creating uncertainty
Uploaded: 2020-10-30T20:35:05.000Z
Duration: 1 min 56 s
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Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo Iweala had been on course to lead the World Trade Organization, is it?

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But the race to find a director general for the global trade watchdog was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after an intervention from the United States.

A is the preferred choice of three w T o ambassadors tasked with finding a successor to Roberto Azevedo.

They cite her widespread cross regional backing by the United States.

Supports another candidate, South Korean Trade Minister Yu Myung He on with the decision requiring consensus any of the WTO's 164 members can block the appointment.

Ik Rockwell is a spokesman for the W T O.

Said that they supported Minister you because of her 25 years of trade experience that she would be able to hit the ground running.

Um, they said that they could not endorse Dr Ngozi.

You'll have to ask them us is in effect threatening to render the W T.

O leaderless for weeks or months to come, and it's not the first time it's been a thorn in the side of the trade body.

Washington has already paralyzed the WTO's rollers, global arbiter on trade by blocking appointments to its appeals panel.

President Donald Trump describes the watchdog as horrible on bias towards China.

He faces a presidential election in less than a week on his trailing in national polls.

O has scheduled a meeting to try and secure the required backing for a conjugal Whalers appointment six days after the election.

By that time, Trump may be on his way out of the White House, but it was not immediately clear if that would affect the U.