Brazilian - Diplomat | October 3, 1957 -
I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
Roberto Azevedo
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Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.
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The best thing we can do to secure the future of the global system, trading system, is to redouble the efforts to improve the system, to reform the system.
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Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any political structure. But that's a reality.
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In most negotiations, you can't attribute success or failure in negotiations to one side.
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It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.
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