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CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL 22 OCTOBRE 2004
Observations préliminaires du Président du Conseil général
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I want to start by welcoming all delegations, and also by extending a very
warm welcome to our guests at today’s General Council meeting, Mr.
Rodrigo de Rato, the newly-appointed Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund, and Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of
the World Bank. We are very grateful to you both for travelling to
Geneva to exchange views with the WTO Membership on the important
issue of coherence in global economic policymaking.
Your presence today alongside the Director-General, Dr. Supachai, is
evidence of the strong relationship that exists between the WTO, the
IMF and the World Bank. It also underscores, I believe, our collective
commitment to the success of the multilateral trading system, and an
understanding that our shared objectives of economic growth, financial
stability, poverty reduction, and sustainable development cannot be
advanced in isolation, but are, in fact, pieces of an interconnected
whole.
I know that Mr. de Rato and Mr. Wolfensohn personally attach high
priority to a successful outcome to the Doha Round, and view it as
having the potential to make a valuable contribution to meeting their
own institutional objectives, and to promoting more growth and less
poverty throughout the world. I also know that we as WTO Members have
a shared stake in their continued commitment, leadership and support.