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Caixin Summit: Pandemic Revealed ‘Terrible Deficiencies’ in International Cooperation, Former WTO Chief Says

2020年11月13日 20:07

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Pascal Lamy says that states engaged in ‘a lot of competition, very little cooperation’ but civil society picked up the slack

The former head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said that the Covid-19 pandemic revealed a global trust deficit and that civil society, rather than states, could help rebuild the trust needed to respond to future crises.

Speaking at the Caixin Summit on Thursday via video link, Pascal Lamy, director-general of the WTO from 2005 to 2013, said the shock of the new coronavirus revealed “terrible deficiencies” in the ability of sovereign states and multilateral institutions to cooperate in battling the deadly virus.

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