Sunanta Kangvalkulkij first Thai ever to serve as chairperson of WTO General Council

  

 

BANGKOK, 4th March 2019 (NNT) - The Deputy Permanent Secretary for Commerce, Boonyarit Kalayanamit, said Thailand’s permanent representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Sunanta Kangvalkulkij, has become the first Thai ever to be voted the new chairperson of the WTO General Council.

 

The WTO’s main mission is to negotiate, establish and supervise trade rules that apply to all member countries impartially and without discrimination to encourage global trade to be more liberal.

 

The organization also has a trade dispute resolution mechanism to create fairness for members and allow the current international trade to be operated transparently can predictably.

 

However, taking this position is considered a challenge because the international trade is under surveillance as a result of the trade war between the United States and China.

 

-- nnt 2019-03-04

He’s at least supposed to know the workings of the WTO, as he was its Director-General from 2002 till 2005.

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

The WTO’s main mission is to negotiate, establish and supervise trade rules that apply to all member countries impartially and without discrimination to encourage global trade to be more liberal.

me  first!!

Thailand is now right in the crosshairs.