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World Trade Organization to be led by a woman for first time

by Associated Press
| October 8, 2020 8:30 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization announced Thursday that South Korea’s trade minister and a Harvard-trained former Nigerian finance minister have qualified as the two finalists to become the next director-general, ensuring a woman in the top job for the first time.

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