BEIJING (Xinhua): China on Tuesday (Feb 16) congratulated Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala after she was appointed as the new director-general of the World Trade Organization, and said it expects the WTO to play a bigger role in promoting global cooperation in the global battle for economic recovery and against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 164 members of the WTO agreed on Monday to appoint Okonjo-Iweala, an economist and a former finance minister of Nigeria, as its next director-general, the WTO said in a news release.
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