Saudi Arabia’s WTO candidate wants practical pilot at the controls

GENEVA: The World Trade Organization has ground to a halt and needs a pragmatic new director-general to drive through reforms, the Saudi candidate for the job said on Wednesday.
Mohammad Al-Tuwaijri, 53, said the WTO, which was founded in 1995, was due a shake-up.
“Twenty-five years; in my mind, every organisation in the world — regardless of the external environment, which is severe in our case — must have the fresh restart,” he told the Geneva Press Club.