The following is excerpted from a 24 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the meeting of ACP Ministers of Trade in Brussels on 24 October 2012, said the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) members “is one of the more powerful and influential advocacy and negotiating arms in the WTO”. He urged the ACP to actively participate on five trade fronts: trade facilitation, regional integration, Aid for Trade, global value chains, and non-tariff measures.
This speech is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl256_e.htm