WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addressed the opening of the global trade body's 14th ministerial conference

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addressed the opening of the global trade body's 14th ministerial conference

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The global trading system is experiencing the "worst disruptions in the past 80 years", World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned as the WTO ministerial conference opened Thursday.

"The world order and the multilateral system we use to know has irrevocably changed," she said, adding: "We cannot deny the scale of the problems confronting the world today."

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