in International Relations Law from the Faculty of Legal, Political, and Social Sciences of the University of Carthage. She has also taught courses on Human Rights Law, Special Crimes, and Comparative Systems. Eya Jrad is a Researcher and an Assistant Professor of Security Studies. The panel will also explore Tunisians’ priorities for their country, the current political crisis, challenges of governance, and the way forward.ĭr. Zogby will present the poll's findings and discuss how opinions have evolved over the past decade since Zogby Research Services (ZRS) first polled Tunisians in 2011. Eya Jrad, Researcher and Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Tunisia. Zogby will be joined by Elizia Volkmann, a British freelance journalist based in Tunis, and Dr. Zogby Research Services conducted a survey of 1,551 Tunisians between August 15 and September 5, 2021.ĭr. They were all barred from entering the WTO headquarters on Sunday on security grounds, according to an email seen by Reuters.The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to welcome James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute and founder of Zogby Research Services (ZRS), to discuss the findings of a recent poll on Tunisian attitudes and optimism for the future. In a sign of the global difficulties, Sunday's opening session meeting was dedicated to "challenges facing the multilateral trading system".Ĭampaign groups gathered near the body's lakeside headquarters over the weekend, some denouncing capitalism and others calling for an end to "vaccine apartheid". President Donald Trump crippled the WTO's Appellate Body that rules on disputes over two years ago, and WTO members have only ever agreed one global deal, the red-tape cutting Trade Facilitation Agreement, in 2013. The 27-year-old WTO is itself in trouble.
The WTO's 164 members take decisions by consensus, meaning a single member can block progress, and negotiations often last years. She also cautioned ministers to recognise that compromises are never perfect. There may be a landmine along the way," Okonjo-Iweala said, adding she was "cautiously optimistic" that the meeting would conclude with one or two deals.
"Let me be clear, even landing one or two will not be an easy road. However, she warned that it would be challenging.
"What remains to be decided requires political will - and I know you have it - to get us over the finish line," she said. Speaking to ministers at the opening, the WTO chief urged them to "show the world that the WTO can step up to the plate" and achieve agreements on subjects such as reducing fishing subsidies, boosting access to COVID-19 vaccines, addressing food security and setting a course for reform of the WTO itself. It has certainly become more complicated," she told a news conference before the June 12-15 meeting, listing the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and major food and energy crises as pieces of a "polycrisis".Īs a sign of divisions among the WTO's 164 members, some 30-40 nations walked out when Russia's Vice-Minister Vladimir Ilyichev took to the floor.Įarlier, trade ministers from the European Union and 29 other WTO members met with Ukraine to express their solidarity and support and wish to alleviate food supply problems.
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