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The World Trade Organisation's new Director-General French Pascal Lamy talks to journalists at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, Thursday, September 1st, 2005. Lamy is taking the helm of the global body two days ahead of schedule. Frenchman Lamy was formally set to take over on September 1st from Thailand's Supachai Panitchpakdi as director general of the WTO. The two men held a handover ceremony at the end of July, before the WTO went into summer recess. (KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)