SINGAPORE, Feb 14 (Reuters) - World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Mike Moore said on Monday he will put together a package under which big powers will provide market access for less developed countries by Easter.
"We are looking on putting together, in the next couple of months, a package on capacity building and technical assistance for developing countries," he told a news conference.
Moore, who has been urging the world's rich countries to do more for the poorer ones, was passing through Singapore after attending a United Nations Trade and Development Agency (UNCTAD) conference in Bangkok.
The former prime minister of New Zealand had brought to Bangkok a "mini package" of proposals, which he hoped would be agreed eventually by big powers like the United States.
Moore also said the WTO was seeking to improve the organisation's policy-managing process to speed implementation in an effort to get poorer nations' support for a new round of global trade talks.
"When confidence is built and direction given, perhaps then that will help us reach a consensus to begin another round," he said.
WTO ministerial talks in Seattle last December collapsed amid differences between the U.S. and the European Union and protests by developing countries that the West was pressuring them to take on expensive trade reforms.
He said a new round had a way to go, but added: "It will happen."
Moore also reiterated his stance on encouraging WTO member countries to approve China's entry to the trade body. He visits China on Thursday and Friday.
"We all need a successful China," he said. "(Without China) I don't have a World Trade Organisation. I have half a World Trade Organisation," he said.:
