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Subject: World Trade Organization: Canada nominates former trade m...
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>               Canada nominates former trade minister to head WTO
     
>                               (Reuters; 07/17/98)
     
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>    OTTAWA (Reuters) -  Canada Friday nominated former trade minister Roy  
>MacLaren, a staunch advocate of free trade, to head the World Trade  
>Organization.
>
>    "Mr. MacLaren's credentials as a free trader are impeccable and he is  
>eminently qualified for the job," Trade Minister Sergio Marchi said in a  
>statement.
>
>    MacLaren has served as ambassador, or high commissioner, to Britain
since  
>1996 after three years in the trade portfolio, when he oversaw the final
stages 
> of Canada's negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the  
>Uruguay Round of the GATT.
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>    The GATT -- the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- is the  
>predecessor to the WTO, whose director-general, Renato Ruggiero, retires
April  
>30, 1999. The WTO oversees current free trade agreements and pushes for
further 
> trade liberalization.
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>    Canada's nomination appeared to be the first, though other names have
been  
>widely bandied about.
>
>    Among them are Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi,
former New 
> Zealand prime minister Mike Moore, Brazilian Foreign Minister Luiz Felipe  
>Lampreia and former Moroccan trade minister Hassan Abouyoub.
>
>    During his years in government, MacLaren was seen more on the
pro-business  
>side of the Liberal cabinet, and pushed a transatlantic free trade
agreement  
>that the United States and the European Union have not yet bought into.
>
>    "The change in the WTO's leadership happens on the eve of important
renewed 
> negotiations in the areas of agriculture and services," Marchi said.
>
>    "Mr. MacLaren has the proven skills needed to forge consensus between  
>developed and developing countries, and to lead the WTO in addressing a  
>challenging agenda."
>
>    Marchi's statement said nominations close on October 1, and a decision
is  
>expected to be made by consensus before the end of this year.
>
>{Reuters:Politics-0717.00604}   07/17/98
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