"WTO president election, possible delay due to Corona 19"

It is predicted that the WTO's election for the next secretary-general of the WTO could be delayed by at least a month due to the surge in corona19 confirmed cases in Geneva, Switzerland, where the headquarters are located.

The Bloomberg news agency reported that the Geneva Canton authorities entered into partial blockade measures, such as banning meetings of five or more people for about a month from yesterday due to the spread of Corona 19 in local time yesterday (on the 2nd).

"This could impede the WTO's ability to affirm Nigeria's nominee Okonjoyweala as the first African-born and first female head in 25 years of history," the report said.

"While some face-to-face meetings could be converted to video conferencing, senior WTO officials are holding a general board meeting on the 9th to discuss whether to postpone their plans to officially approve candidate Okonjoyweala," the news agency said.

But the news agency added that WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell did not comment on this.

Earlier, the WTO held a meeting at the ambassador level of all member states on the 28th of last month and recommended Okonjoyweala, the final partner of the trade negotiations headquarters of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, as the next secretary-general candidate.

In the meantime, it announced that it will hold a special general board meeting on the 9th after obtaining consensus, that is, consensus from 164 member states, and elect candidate Okhonjoyweala as the next secretary-general.

However, since the US, a key member state, is supporting General Manager Myung-hee Myung-hee, the general board of directors has rejected a proposal to recommend candidate Okonjoyweala, and some are cautiously raising the possibility that the Secretary-General's position will remain vacant for a while.

There is also a prospect that the results of the US presidential election scheduled for March 3 will affect the election of the WTO secretary general.

The news agency said, "Even if Candidate Joe Biden is elected, the WTO election procedure may not proceed quickly," said the elector, "because we will take office only on January 20, next year, and economic stimulus and Corona 19 response will take precedence over WTO issues. "I analyzed it.