By AMINA MOHAMEDMore by this AuthorI was privileged and lucky to have worked with Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono Biwott and to have considered him a friend. He never tired of defending our great country and, for that reason, never left a meeting room before business was over — just in case Kenya lost an opportunity. The 2001 WTO Doha Ministerial Conference could easily have been given his name: No one worked harder or more diligently to ensure a deal was struck. He saved the ACP-EU trade arrangement, which was threatened by two groups of countries who objected to an exemption under the WTO Trade Rules. Without him, the ACP-EU trade arrangement, as we know it, would have changed dramatically in 2001.

Source: Daily Nation July 12, 2017 18:56 UTC