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Southeast Governors’ Symposium
Script for pre-recorded video message Excellencies, Governors, My dear brothers, Honorable Ministers here present, our Royal Fathers, our leaders in Ohaneze Ndigbo, ladies and gentlemen, all protocols observed. I am deeply honoured by the invitation to address you today. Prior engagements unfortunately prevented me from joining you at home, but I am happy to… Read more
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Why the developing world and all of us still need trade and the WTO
Speech and fireside chat with Ambassador Katherine Tai Thank you, Katherine, and thanks to all of you for joining us here today. Thanks also to Daniel Runde and CSIS team for making this event possible. [One area where Ambassador Tai and I are in complete agreement is that trade and the WTO are powerful tools… Read more
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UN High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development
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… Read more
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G20 Leaders’ Summit
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… Read more
