Nigeria: WTO - What Nigeria Is Doing to Ensure Okonjo-Iweala's Victory - Foreign Affairs Ministry

29 October 2020

The U.S. had opposed the selection of Mrs Okonjo-Iweala when it endorsed her South Korean counterpart, Yoo Myung-hee.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Nigeria's candidate in the race for the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has secured cross-regional backing with only the United States opposing the consensus.

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