WTO must 'reform or die': talks facilitatorListen to this articleThe WTO headquarters, next to Lake Geneva. GENEVA - Successfully reforming the WTO is a matter of life and death for the organisation, warns the facilitator of talks on revamping the global trade body. "We need to reform," Norway's ambassador to the WTO Petter Olberg told AFP in a recent interview. A full 72% of global trade still operates under WTO rules. And it has permitted India especially to repeatedly block the adoption of plurilateral trade agreements into the WTO framework.

Source: Bangkok Post February 04, 2026 17:26 UTC