The UK’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, gave a statement during The Maldives Trade Policy Review.
Chair, let me offer a warm welcome to the delegation from the Maldives led by the Minister of State. Let me also express my gratitude, both to him and his team for their report and to the WTO Secretariat, for their report. I also thank you Chair, for your very good introduction and let me also pay tribute to our Discussant, my very good friend, Ambassador Murdoch, for an intervention. If I may say, for those of us that are of a cricketing bent, Ambassador, combined the elegance and power of your good friend Sir Viv Richards with the intellectual rigour of my own hero Mike Brearley.
Reports analysis
Bilateral trade
Business environment and women in trade
UK support programmes [the Maldives Development Partnership]
WTO and multilateral institutions
Conclusion
Maldives Trade Policy Review, 2024 is available at: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/s461_e.pdf