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The WTO ministerial conference was postponed just four days before it was due to start, hours after Omicron was declared a variant of concern by the World Health Organization - Copyright POOL/AFP/File DENIS BALIBOUSE Agnès PEDRERO Next week’s World Trade Organization ministerial conference, the global trade body’s biggest gathering in four years, was postponed at the last minute Friday due to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant. The WTO hoped the four-day gathering in Geneva would breathe new life into the crippled organisation, which has been stuck for years trying to make progress on resolving issues like fishery subsidies. New director-general...
