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Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms - under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.