Key to her success will be her ability to operate in the centre of a "US-EU-China triangle", he said. She has rejected this, saying that she has plenty of experience of trade plus other expertise. "People recognise that this is not someone who is going to tolerate nonsense," her son Uzodinma Iweala, a writer, told Reuters. The WTO currently faces deadlock over an issue of waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 drugs, with many wealthy countries opposed. Asked about the challenges ahead, she joked that a book she wrote about fixing Nigeria's broken institutions could well apply to today's WTO: 'Reforming the Unreformable'.

Source: bd News24 February 15, 2021 09:56 UTC