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In a statement at the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the GATT during the Second WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva on May 19, 1998, Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore stated, “The GATT and an open multilateral trading system have enabled nations to compete peacefully without the need to resort to wars in order to carve out trading empires to keep out economic rivals. The WTO must now carry this responsibility. It can do so successfully if it is clear on what it can and should achieve in pursuing its fundamental objective of multilateral trade liberalization”. Singapore has been a strong systemic supporter of the WTO and a consistent advocate of multilateral trade liberalization.
he was the Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Trade Development Board from 1994–2000.
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Desker, B. (2005). Singapore. In: Macrory, P.F.J., Appleton, A.E., Plummer, M.G. (eds) The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22688-5_78
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