Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in his address to the African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade on 4 December in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said that African nations stand to benefit from the recent WTO decisions on the Bali agreements, including on the Trade Facilitation Agreement, which would support “your efforts at regional integration in a very practical way”. He urged African members to “engage even more” in the WTO. “We are coming to a defining period in our work when it will be crucial that your voices are heard in full,” he said. This is what he said: http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spra_e/spra43_e.htm