Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

There’s great interest in what really happened at the WTO’s MC14. At Harvard University with faculty and staff discussing this, the state of global trade, and the room for WTO Reforms. Very interesting to debate macroeconomic policy management with Professor @jasonfurman’s Macroeconomics Class (EC10) in Sanders Theatre. This was a class I took 53 years ago in the same venue. Great questions from brilliant students. Among faculty, was happy to be joined by Professors David Laibson, Pol Antràs, Myrto Kalouptsidi, Marc Melitz, Dani Rodrik and Gordon Hanson. thank you for your animating conversation, intellectual strength and wisdom.

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Happy Easter to all my friends and followers who celebrate. Wishing you and your loved ones the very best and God’s blessings!!

Addressing a meeting of African Finance ministers in Tangier by video with a debrief on our just concluded ministerial meeting in Yaoundé and the continuation of the work in Geneva. Discussing global trade issues, risks and opportunities for Africa especially in digital trade.

At the Nigerian Economic Society policy dialogue and launch of its flagship report From Adjustment Pains to Consolidation Gains in Abuja. Doing a fireside chat on global trade moderated by Nancy Nnaji of AIT and Prof Rafindadi Dep VC ABU. Congrats NES.

The 14th WTO Ministerial Meeting has closed in Yaoundé. We worked hard, we stayed late negotiating until the wee hours of each morning, we got a lot done, including agreement on an important reform package, but couldn’t quite close the deal on the e-commerce Moratorium. We were supposed to close the meeting at 1pm but Members kept working until midnight and then quite rightly decided to adjourn the meeting and take back our Yaoundé package of work to Geneva to complete it there. Members were amazing in their patience and determination. Our Cameroonian hosts were even more amazing. Many thanks to them for their warm hospitality and hard work. We are grateful in particular to H.E. Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute, to the Interministerial Committee, to MC14 Chair H.E. Minister Luc-Magloire Mbarga Atangana @MbargaAtangana1 and H.E. Amb Salomon Eheth. I want to say how proud I am of the wonderful @wto Secretariat staff who, working beside Cameroon, helped to ensure the success of this meeting. The attendance of over 120 delegations, over 80 Ministers, and 2000 delegates is a testimony to the importance of the Yaoundé meeting. Long live the Yaoundé package! We’ll complete the work!

Two important events on the sidelines of #WTOMC14. A successful launch of the E-Commerce Agreement and a meeting of Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) participants to encourage more members to join. Both good signs of the way the organization is trying to forge ahead using new approaches to get things done.

A historic gathering of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and African Ministers (CELAC) following the inaugural CELAC-Africa Heads of State Meeting in Bogotá chaired by H.E. Vice President Francia Márquez of Colombia @ViceColombia. With the growing importance of South-South trade, proud to support this inaugural gathering on the sidelines of the WTO 14th Ministerial Conference.

At a gathering with the Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate, on the sidelines of #WTOMC14. Thanks to the co-convenors - Ecuador, the European Union, Kenya and New Zealand for hosting this important discussion on the importance of trade to achieving global climate goals.

Appreciate the productive bilateral meetings at #WTOMC14 with H.E. Commissioner @MarosSefcovic, Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; the Rt Hon. @peterkyle, UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade; H.E. Dr. Luis Rosendo Gutiérrez Romano, Undersecretary for Foreign Trade of Mexico; and H.E. Kenji Yamada, State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, and H.E. Shimada Tomoaki, Parliamentary Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Celebrated the Ratification of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies by three more members at the opening of #WTOMC14. Congratulations to Paraguay, Samoa and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for taking us from 116 to 119 ratifications. And many thanks to Amb @WillsSantiago, Director - Council and Trade Negotiations Committee, for composing such a beautiful song to celebrate the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement.

What a fun video about the WTO made by the UK Department for Business and Trade. Thanks to HE Minister of State for Trade Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant for sharing. Enjoy! linkedin.com/posts/departme…

Quite a tough but ultimately productive meeting with H.E. Amb Jamieson Greer, @USTradeRep, and H.E. Amb Joseph Barloon and their delegation. The #WTOMC14 path looks difficult but hard work can get us there.

Dear Excellency @PiyushGoyal, it was a very tough meeting but thanks for your positive take. Look forward to working it all out together.

A really good start to #WTOMC14 with a great Opening thanks to the Government of the Republic of Cameroon and H.E. Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. Full of color with a good representation not only of the different regions of Cameroon but of the world. It reminded us that cooperation can deliver more for the peoples of WTO Members than isolation or fragmentation. In this regard, the room lit up with excitement when H.E. Ömer Bolat @omerbolatTR, Minister of Trade of Türkiye, announced that Türkiye would no longer oppose the incorporation of IFD into the WTO rulebook. Beautiful family photo of Ministers and Heads of Delegation.

At the launch of Phase III of the Enhanced Integrated Framework @EIF4LDCs on the sidelines of MC14— a renewed commitment to helping LDCs turn trade into growth and jobs. Thanks to Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for their contribution pledges.