WTO's big conference postponed due to new Covid variant


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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 DENIS BALIBOUSE POOL/AFP/File 3 min Geneva (AFP) – 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. Advertising Read more 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...