WTO's dispute-settlement procedures also need urgent overhaul to stop such rows festering in future.
This dispute-settlement mechanism is meant to have teeth, since a country cannot veto unfavourable rulings.
The reason for Mr Rhodes's suspension - over an employment dispute - was only revealed in the judicial review.
The latest offer from the executive concedes that it is a national dispute - a response welcomed by union officials.
However, an investigation into the original allegation - about Mr Rhodes' involvement in a separate employment dispute - is continuing.
And it means a preference for voluntary, not purely legal, dispute-resolution channels, and a readiness to adapt policy to changing technology.
They also staff the country's 271 dispute-settling industrial tribunals (known as prud'hommes councils) and fix national agreements on wages and working conditions.
This applies to the new dispute-settlement rules as much as to anything else: every member government has agreed to them as well.
They even agreed to set up a monitoring group, to check whether members are living up to their commitments, and a dispute-settlement procedure.
Venezuela's entry, assuming it goes ahead, puts a question-mark over Mercosur's newly established dispute-resolution tribunal, as well as its plans for closer macro-economic co-ordination.
Instead, Congress chose to multiply the alternative dispute-resolution procedures at the PTO, giving the office more work to do without a guarantee of more money.
WTO's dispute-settlement mechanism is not as effective as it should be.
Most notably, a Supreme Court ruling last year strengthened companies' ability to use mandatory arbitration, a dispute-resolution process designed to keep consumer cases out of court.
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There is a growing diplomatic impatience in the West with the failure to resolve the Israel-Palestinian dispute - a rising sense that something must be done.
So the WTO I think has been a very good forum for ensuring that behavior has a mechanism for being dealt with in the dispute-resolution process.
Under the tribunal rules, for example, companies of under 20 staff will be obliged to have formal dispute-resolution procedures in place, something they have so far been spared.
With growing evidence that the dispute-resolution process is working, ICANN's board will almost certainly approve a plan at the Yokohama meeting to start taking applications for new domains.
Accountancy and methods of dispute-settlement are still in their infancy.
In February, Mr Rhodes was suspended but the reason - his involvement in a separate employment dispute - were only revealed when he took the decision to judicial review.
But other dispute-settling bodies, even in countries known for open governance, are more guarded: for example, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, to which many energy disputes are referred.
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But without the risk of a dispute-settlement case, other countries would feel free to maintain whatever trade barriers they liked against imports from the recalcitrant country, or even to put up some new ones.
These are two of the most difficult areas of dispute - one group because they won't be moved from their current location and the other because they insist on returning to homes they left decades ago.
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On the health care front, as a candidate for President, I pledged to make sure we were helping New Orleans recruit doctors and nurses, and rebuild medical facilities -- including a new veterans hospital. (Applause.) Well, we have resolved a long-standing dispute -- one that had tied up hundreds of millions of dollars -- to fund the replacement for Charity Hospital.
After a good powwow in impartial Kazakhstan--their first since the dispute started--the two leaders today emerged clutching a signed gas agreement that they said was "fair" and "legitimate, " according to AFX.
While there's growing consensus about the need to deal with flags carrying the symbols of illegal paramilitary groups, the flying of national flags remains - as the Belfast council dispute illustrates - difficult terrain.
They'll emphasize what they have agreed on, which the very most important thing is they've agreed to launch negotiations on the final end of conflict of the Palestinian-Israeli dispute of 60-years standing.
Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether to certify the largest class-action employment lawsuit in U.S. history, a long-standing dispute against mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over alleged gender bias in pay and promotions.
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Whoever was in there, Paul -- and I don't think you'll dispute that -- whoever was in there would have seen those same increases because of, on the one hand, huge drops in revenue, but at the same time people were hurting and needed help.
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