ZURICH: The World Trade Organization chief called on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) on countries to wrap up 20 years of talks banning subsidies that contribute to overfishing and net a deal by July.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who took the WTO reins last month, urged member-states to step up efforts to draft a text that is “complete and clean enough” to be presented to ministers for consideration by July.