Category: Remarks

78th UN General Assembly Trade, debt, and the need for a safety net for trade finance Secretary-General Guterres, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Trade is an important tool for fostering debt sustainability and in financing for development more generally – a role recognized in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Exports generate the foreign exchange revenues many…

Session 1 “One Earth” Thank you Chair, excellencies My message today is simple: We cannot deliver a sustainable planet without global trade. Consider Morocco’s Noor Solar Power Complex – among the world’s largest. It uses solar panels from China, transformers from Japan, cables from Australia and Singapore, and energy storage technologies developed in Spain and…

DRIVING INCLUSIVITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH THROUGH SERVICES TRADE Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured and delighted to be here at the 2023 Global Services Summit together with so many distinguished representatives from government, the wider policy community, and the private sector. Let me start by thanking Christine Bliss and her team at the Coalition…

Principal Sir Anton Muscatelli, faculty, students, and the entire University of Glasgow community. Thank you so much for this immense honor. To receive an honorary degree is always special. But as an economist, it is a particular thrill to do so here, at the university where Adam Smith studied, taught, and developed insights that to…

Economic Resilience: Trade Policies for Resilient and Sustainable Growth Strengthening global economic resilience to current and future shocks Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you, Secretary-General Cormann and Minister Badenoch, for the invitation. I will be making the case that a strong and effective WTO is a vital tool for…

Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, I’m delighted to be here today. Let me start by thanking SG Scotland and the Commonwealth Secretariat for this timely gathering. I also want to express my gratitude for the Commonwealth’s continued support for the work of the WTO. My first external engagement after our successful 12th Ministerial…

17 June 2022 Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, MC12 is coming to a close – a bit later than expected but with an unprecedented package of deliverables. Not in a long while has the WTO seen such a significant number of multilateral outcomes. We came here to deliver results. Back on Sunday – which feels like…

G7 Leaders’ Summit Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. Everywhere I go these days, young people seem on edge. Instead of hope there is fear: for a future of uncertain jobs, climate crisis, even war. To build the peaceful, stable and prosperous world we want – the world they deserve – we need to deliver on growth,…

24 June 2022 Excellencies, Presidents,Honourable Prime MinistersBaroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary General of the CommonwealthFriendsGood afternoon. It is truly an honour to be with you this afternoon. And I must say that I feel especially happy that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is taking place in Rwanda, a country with which I have been…

28 June2022 H.E. António Costa, PM of Portugal H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya H.E. Iván Duque Marquez, President of Colombia Excellencies Ladies and gentlemen, It is a pleasure to be here in beautiful Cascais. I want to thank our co-hosts Kenya and Portugal. I am honored to be alongside the two leaders here, and…