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STORY: WTO / AID FOR TRADE
TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: WTO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 JULY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11 JULY 2017, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shots, WTO building exteriors
2. Med shots, arrivals for opening plenary session
3. Wide shot, meeting hall
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO):
“Since it was launched just over a decade ago, over 300 billion dollars has been disbursed under the Aid for Trade initiative, reaching 146 countries. And each dollar has been targeted at helping those countries to build their infrastructure and their capacity.”
5. Wide shot, meeting hall
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO):
“Trade has helped to lift a billion people out of poverty in our lifetimes. We know what can be achieved, so let's achieve more. Now let’s redouble our efforts to continue this work. Let's build a more inclusive trading system, which supports the new Sustainable Development Goals, and which paves the way for a better world.”
7. Pan right, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang, Vice President, The Gambia:
“We believe in the multilateral trading system as it remains the only platform that avails us all the opportunity to discuss and agree on multilateral trade rules that promote fair trade to support our development process.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):
“There is a backlash against globalization. It´s almost a cliché now. But the problem is that globalization does not have a body. You can`t squeeze it; you can`t touch it. Globalization does not have a neck from which you can hang it. So they choose trade as good proxy. Trade is not responsible for the world´s evils, neither is it possible for trade to resolve all of the world´s problems.”
10. Wide shot, meeting hall
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):
“But we have to continue to promote open, free and I would say, yes, fair trade for all.”
12. Wide shot, meeting hall
The Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said there has been a “backlash against globalization” adding that “globalization does not have a neck from which you can hang it.”
Speaking at the opening of this year’s Aid for Trade Global Review in Geneva today (11 Jul), Angel Gurría said globalization was “almost a cliché now” adding that those working against it turn to “trade as good proxy.” He noted that trade is “not responsible for the world´s evils, neither is it possible for trade to resolve all of the world´s problems.” Gurría stressed that the world must continue to promote open, free and fair trade for all.
World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Roberto Azevêdo said trade has helped lift a billion people out of poverty and called on the international community to redouble its efforts and build a “more inclusive trading system, which supports the new Sustainable Development Goals, and which paves the way for a better world.”
Azevêdo said since the Aid for Trade initiative was launched just over a decade ago, over 300 billion dollars has been disbursed reaching 146 countries. He added that “each dollar has been targeted at helping those countries to build their infrastructure and their capacity.”
The Gambia’s Vice President Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang said the world was changing at a fast pace and so was her country. She said the Gambia believed in the multilateral trading system “as it remains the only platform that avails us all the opportunity to discuss and agree on multilateral trade rules that promote fair trade to support our development process.”
According to the WTO, the Aid for Trade initiative helps developing countries, and particularly least developed countries, trade. It said many developing countries face a range of supply-side and trade-related infrastructure obstacles which constrains their ability to engage in international trade. The WTO encourages governments in developing countries and donors to recognize the role that trade can play in development. Aid for Trade seeks to mobilize resources to address the trade-related constraints identified by developing and least-developed countries.
This year’s review of the issue will have over 1,500 participants from all over the world and will run from 11 to 13 July. The focus will be promoting trade, inclusiveness and connectivity for Sustainable Development.
