World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Reuters Pictures 3 months ago

World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009.

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  1. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.
  2. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.
  3. Television sets screen Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speak during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel, at an electronics shop in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  4. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy, left, and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) head Kandeh Yumkella, right, attend a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  5. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  6. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, on Thursday, Dec.3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  7. Men look at a television screening of Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as he speaks during a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel, at an electronics shop in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  8. Russia�s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a question-and-answer show at a Russian state TV channel in Moscow December 3, 2009. Putin on Thursday said the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations to emigration rights for religious minorities was an anachronism and hindered Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  9. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) shares a laugh with Egypt's Finance Minister and Chairman of the IMFC Youssef Boutros-Ghali (C) and World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (R) before the start of the Development Committee meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 5, 2009. The Development Committee is a forum of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that facilitates intergovernmental consensus building on development issues.
  10. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.
  11. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.
  12. PITTSBURGH - SEPTEMBER 25: World leaders front row (L-R) are South African President Jacob Zuma, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Hujin Tao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, second Row (L-R) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodruigez Zapatero, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, third row (L-R) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Director General of the ILO Juan Somavia, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, Director General of the WTO Pascal Lamy, and FSB Chairman Mario Draghi pose for the official group photo at the G-20 on September 25, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Heads of state from the world's leading economic powers are meeting for the second day of the G-20 summit held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, aimed at promoting economic growth.
  13. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy, left, and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) head Kandeh Yumkella, right, attend a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  14. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  15. Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization, WTO, speaks at a news conference at Vienna's International Center, on Thursday, Dec.3, 2009. U.N. officials are warning that the world's least developed countries are especially hard hit by the global financial crisis and will feel its impact for years to come.
  16. Chilean Andres Velasco, left, Minister of Finance and president of the conference, with French Pascal Lamy, right, World Trade Organization Director-General, view a document prior the closing ceremony of the 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG), in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.

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