In first day on job, WTO chief pushes for fisheries deal

摘要

The new head of the World Trade Organization threw her support behind long-fruitless efforts among membercountries to agree on fisheries subsidies that could reduce overfishing, calling the efforts a top priority as shetook office today.Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former government minister, donned a maskand doled out elbow bumps - COVID-19 oblige - as she took up the job at WTO headquarters on the banks ofLake Geneva."I am coming into one of the most important institutions in the world, andwe have a lot of work to do," said Okonjo-Iweala, 66, who is both the firstwoman and the first African to hold the job. "I feel ready to go."