General Roderick Abbot

Rod Abbot

Director

Let me simply cite Jagdish Bhagwati and other academics as well as Rod Abbot.
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Quoting from the letter of Rod Abbot to the FT, former European Commission trade negotiator and Deputy Director-General of the WTO:

No less a person than the deputy head of the WTO, Roderick Abbot, in Dublin recently at a presentation to IBEC, made the point that the multilateral environmental agreements in reality had very little effect and were of no major consequence in terms of the WTO negotiations.

"Some WTO members point to the success that countries such as China have had in attracting FDI, without any multilateral investment framework (MIF), and they do not believe that a WTO agreement would lead to increased flows of FDI to developing countries", said Roderick Abbot, Deputy Director-General of the WTO at the inaugural session of the Review Seminar of the ‘Investment for Development' project held in Geneva, Switzerland on 9-10 May 2003.Highlighting the debate on the proposed MIF at the WTO, Abbot said that the outcome of the Cancun Ministerial could not be predicted.

WTO Deputy Director General Roderick Abbot has hinted that the Doha deadline of January 1, 2005 will most likely have to be extended.