Australian PM: WTO needs mending to keep up with the times
SINGAPORE (AP) - Australian 総理大臣 Scott Morrison said Friday that the World 貿易（する） Organization needs mending to keep up with the times.
Morrison said many leaders …に出席するing the Group of 20 首脳会議 in Osaka later this month 株 the 見解（をとる）.
"There is a strong 合意 about the need to modernize the WTO and its 支配するs," he said.
"We need to mend it, we don't need to break it, and mending it 要求するs a lot of 共同," he 追加するd. "Just now it's the technical practical things that need to get done."
Morrison, who spoke at a lunch 組織するd by the Australian 議会 of 商業 in Singapore, didn't go into the 明確な／細部s of what needed to change.
But he referred to a "very practical" speech by Singapore 総理大臣 物陰／風下 Hsien Loong at an 年次の 安全 会議／協議会 last week.
物陰／風下 said 多国間の 会・原則s like the WTO were "far from perfect" and in need of 改革（する）.
"多国間の 全世界の 取引，協定s like the Uruguay 一連の会議、交渉／完成する are no longer practical, when 協定 要求するs a 十分な 合意 の中で 164 member countries of hugely diverse 利益／興味s and philosophies," he said.
"その上に, the WTO was designed for an 農業の and 製造業の-based world economy, but the world has moved on to services and now ますます 数字表示式の and 知識人 所有物／資産／財産, which need much more 複雑にするd 支配するs," 物陰／風下 追加するd.
Morrison is on his first overseas trip after a shock 選挙 victory in May. It 含むs stops at the Solomon Islands, Britain and Singapore.
