The following is from a 26 June 2012 speech by Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance in Berlin on 26 June 2012, said that “multilateralism is at a crossroads. Either it advances in the spirit of shared values and enhanced co-operation, or we will face a retreat from multilateralism, at our own peril. Without global cooperation on finance, security, trade, the environment and poverty reduction, the risks of division, strife and war will remain dangerously real.”
This speech is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl239_e.htm