By DPA
Paris : World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy has said that he would like to see the G8 expand and accept a number of growing economic powers.
"We must go more in the direction of a G20 than a G5," Lamy told the French radio station France Culture Wednesday. "We can no longer have serious discussions without China, India, Indonesia and Brazil."
Lamy also said that it was possible for individual countries to block trade with nations who are regarded as environment unfriendly.
"If this or that member of the WTO wants to take trade-inhibiting measures in the name of environment, it is perfectly free to do so," he said.
However, he noted that environment could not be used as a pretext to enact measures that serve only to protect a country from international competition.