Roberto Azevedo Quotes

Roberto Azevedo — Brazilian Diplomat born on October 03, 1957,

Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo is a Brazilian diplomat and the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Azevêdo was elected to succeed Pascal Lamy as Director-General of the World Trade Organization in May 2013. He assumed office on 1 September 2013... (wikipedia)

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

Roberto Azevedo Quotes

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