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LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland
SUMMARY:UNCTAD16 leaders dialogue
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DESCRIPTION:The opening of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devel
 opment (UNCTAD16) featured a leaders dialogue that underlined that the cur
 rent multilateral system is under strain\, beset by rising inequality\, ec
 onomic uncertainty and eroding confidence in shared rules.Watch the leader
 s dialogueSpeakers at the dialogue agreed that the rules underpinning glob
 al trade – many written nearly 80 years ago – are no longer fit for pu
 rpose.Opening remarksRebeca Grynspan\, Secretary-General\, UN Trade and De
 velopment (UNCTAD)SpeakersArnoldo André Tinoco\, Minister of Foreign Affa
 irs and Worship\, Costa RicaKamina Johnson Smith\, Minister of Foreign Aff
 airs and Foreign Trade\, JamaicaAhmed Kouchouk\, Minister of Finance\, Egy
 ptGuy Parmelin\, Federal Councillor\, SwitzerlandNgozi Okonjo-Iweala\, Dir
 ector-General\, World Trade Organizationhttps://unctad.org/unctad16&quot\;
  data-entity-type=&quot\;external\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://u
 nctad.org/unctad16/leaders-dialogue
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