The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to announce on Friday the departure of three candidates in the race for the position of the Director General of the global trade body, thereby narrowing the number of contestants to five.
According to Bloomberg, the troika of three top WTO officials in Geneva is expected to announce today that Mexico's Jesus Seade, Egypt's Hamid Mamdouh and Moldova's Tudor Ulianovschi didn't secure enough support in a first of three rounds of voting, according to the people, who weren't authorised to speak publicly.
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