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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on January 16, 2015, 07:33:01 PM
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She should forget any role at the International level after trying to sabotage the ICC. She may have saved Uhuru but the price was her international career. She has opened her mouth to utter things she cannot unsay. These have buried her career for good
The first cut in the race for the position of WTO Director-General took place last week, after four candidates were deemed as not having sufficient support to make it to the leadership contest's second stage. The process to whittle down the remaining list of five candidates - which come from either Asia-Pacific or Latin American countries - to two is already underway, with the second round of consultations kicking off on Tuesday.
General Council Chair Shahid Bashir - Pakistan's ambassador to the global trade body - reported to fellow WTO members on Friday that Alan Kyerematen of Ghana, Anabel González of Costa Rica, Amina Mohamed of Kenya, and Ahmad Thougan Hindawi of Jordan had attracted the least support in the first round, and would therefore be expected to withdraw from the race.
Bashir, together with Dispute Settlement Body Chair Jonathan Fried of Canada and Trade Policy Review Body Chair Joakim Reiter of Sweden, is part of the troika that is conducting consultations with the membership in the Director-General selection process.
The five candidates that will formally remain in the race for the next round will therefore be Mari Pangestu of Indonesia, Tim Groser of New Zealand, Herminio Blanco of Mexico, Taeho Bark of South Korea, and Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo of Brazil.
Pangestu, Groser, Blanco, and Bark are all current or former trade ministers of their respective countries, while Azevêdo has served as his country's WTO ambassador since 2008.
With the remaining five candidates from either the Asia-Pacific or Latin American regions, many expect the next big fight to be over who attracts the most support from African member countries, as well as from the EU and US. Other factors, such as how well a candidate is known in Geneva, their views on trade policy, and whether other international bodies are already headed by someone from their region could very well play into the race.
While speculation abounds over who might advance to the third - and likely final - consultations round, many caution that it is still anybody's race, and that it is difficult to predict who will support which candidates, as the consultations are conducted confidentially.
Kenya, Ghana express concerns over process
Under the guidelines for selection of WTO Directors-General, candidates who attract the least support are expected to withdraw from the consultations process. On Friday, however, Kenya reportedly said that they were not able to join the consensus, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting, and would not be withdrawing Amina Mohamed's candidacy. However, whether Mohamed would continue to remain in the race, and for long, was unclear at the time of this writing.
http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/bridges/news/candidate-field-narrows-for-wto-director-generals-race