Azevêdo urges ministers’ action on systemic issues and to intensify fisheries subsidies work

Speaking at an informal ministerial meeting on 23 May organised by the Australian government in the margins of the OECD meetings in Paris, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo urged ministers to address systemic challenges and advance negotiating work in parallel. He warned that current progress on fisheries subsidies would need to intensify if there was to be a successful outcome by the agreed end-of-year deadline. While in Paris, the Director-General participated in various other meetings, including the launch of a Joint Statement on Domestic Regulation by a group of WTO members and a meeting of the Ottawa Group of countries to discuss WTO reform.

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