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ministerial conferences. It began cooperation with leaders of international institutions
such as Kofi Annan and Jim Wolfensohn, and made great progress in institutional
coordination, dialogues, and exchanges.
And fourthly, the image of the WTO has been greatly elevated. Besides its regular
participation in the seminars and symposiua of NGOs, it also keeps high-level
contact with national parliaments and governments. This facilitates exchange and
communication between the WTO and others such as business leaders, trade
unions, and NGOs.
Moore is justly proud of his achievements. In his farewell speech, he expressed his
thanks to the WTO secretariat and the staff as well, saying that he was indebted to
them. He noted they had been working hard over the last three years, fulfilling their
commitments and contributing to the undertaking; they had been professional and
goal-oriented at the same time. In fact, these remarks are also applicable to him.
During his three-year tenure, Moore was earnest and diligent in his work, kept his
commitment and contributed his share, and he was also professional and
goal-oriented.
Always Full of Confidence and Expectations towards Free Trade
At the 2003 Bo‘ao Forum for Asia held in Hainan, Moore expressed his views on the
obstacles to free trade and his confidence in free trade. He said that he was shaken
to see that the Cancun Conference had failed. He was also shocked to find that
many people would welcome this failure. He was even more horrified to learn that
new North-South problems would occur in terms of trade facilitation with the
development of regional economic organizations.
Although he is now retired from the World Trade Organization, Moore is still a strong
advocate of globalism. He insists that globalism is a dominant stream of thought in
today‘s age. Globalization should not be demonized, nor should people expect it to
be perfect. It is neutral in terms of morality and the present problem is how to
manage globalization. He cited China as a case in point, saying that if globalization is
handled well, hundreds of millions of people will be relieved from poverty. And
speaking about the APEC Summit in Bangkok, he said that the most important
outcome of the summit is to ensure the continuation of multilateralism. Besides, the
many state leaders said that they will support Doha Round, and the achievement
made at the Cancun Conference should form the basis for later negotiations.
In these words, we can feel the earnest expectations of a strong advocate in his
belief in free trade, and his despair and sadness over the existence of trade barriers.
On many occasions, Moore has expressed his faith in free trade and the trade rules.
He thinks that in order to make progress in trade negations, developed countries
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