Item 4 – Incorporation of the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement into Annex 4 of the WTO Agreement – Draft Decision (WT/GC/W/927/Rev.2)

Thank you Chair, it is a real pleasure to be here today at the WTO General Council meeting. It is my first full working day at the WTO and I have been in Geneva less than 48 hours, but I really look forward to working with all the Members here across the next four years and I very much look forward to working with you, the DG, and the whole team here.

It is a particular pleasure to make my first intervention on this topic. The IFDA shows the potential of the WTO at its best. Advantages of this agreement are well rehearsed and well known to all the Members here: it increases business confidence, reduces complexity, increases growth, increas

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