The following is excerpted from a 22 May 2013 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Africans today are more confident and hopeful in the future than ever before. This is also the great transformation that I have seen in the attitude of African negotiators in WTO: confident that trade, if coupled with domestic policies and Aid for Trade can be an engine for growth.
This speech is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl283_e.htm