{"id":48779,"date":"2024-09-16T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=48779"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:00:31","slug":"wto-chief-okonjo-iweala-announces-intention-to-seek-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/16\/wto-chief-okonjo-iweala-announces-intention-to-seek-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO Chief Okonjo-Iweala Announces Intention To Seek Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has announce her intention to go for a second term. She told Reuters this on Monday. According to the DG, she will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push\u00a0\u00a0to start the process early.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to be part of this chapter of the WTO story and I stand ready to compete for the position,&#8221; Okonjo-Iweala told Reuters, citing a letter she plans to send to the trade body&#8217;s main decision-making body on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For my second term, I intend to focus on delivering,&#8221; she added, saying among the priorities were addressing &#8220;unfinished business&#8221; including a deal on ending fisheries subsidies and reaching a breakthrough in global agriculture negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has announce her intention to go for a second term. She told Reuters this on Monday. According to the DG, she will seek another four-year term as head of the World Trade Organization following a broad Africa-led push\u00a0\u00a0to start the process early. &#8220;I would like to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":48780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-48779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48781,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions\/48781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}