Brazil's Azevedo to be Next WTO Chief: Source Tom Miles - Reuters
go to original May 7, 2013

GENEVA - Roberto Azevedo, a Brazilian trade diplomat, will be the next head of the World Trade Organization, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday after the results of the contest to succeed France's Pascal Lamy were given in a confidential meeting.

Azevedo beat Mexico's former trade minister Herminio Blanco in the three-round competition, becoming the first Latin American to head the trade group since its creation in 1995.

Sources involved in the process said Blanco had got a boost from narrowly winning the European Union's support, although the EU made clear that it could accept either man, giving Azevedo wider support among the WTO's 159 members.

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