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India to make another attempt for Doha trade deal
INDIA-WTO
Ruchi Kapoor
Nairobi, Oct 15 (PTI) India will make yet another effort
at the ministerial level to give a push to Doha Round of WTO
trade talks before leaders of the G-20 meet in Seoul next
month.
"I will be travelling to Geneva on October 19 to meet
with the chairs of the sub-groups on agriculture, industrial
products and services," visiting Indian Commerce and Industry
Minister Anand Sharma told reporters here.
Talks of negotiating groups on different areas like
agriculture and Non-Agriculture Market Access (NAMA) are
underway, but have not seen much success in the backdrop of
the absence of positive signals from the developed countries,
particularly the US.
"The US view is that there is no shortcut to a Doha
success," US chief agricultural trade negotiator Isi Siddiqui
recently said in Brussels. He indicated the Doha negotiations,
which are running into the ninth year, may stretch into 2012.
Sharma said India had made efforts in September 2009 to
re-energise the Doha talks by convening a ministerial meeting
in New Delhi.
Besides, the country has also been raising the issue in
the G-20 summits. The issue would come up again in the next
summit in Seoul.
"We will wait for the next G-20 summit. India has a
commitment to take the present WTO round to a successful
conclusion, which will be in the interest of the global
economy," he said.
According to officials in the Commerce Ministry in New
Delhi, chances of having a deal in 2010 look bleak.
Negotiators from 153 members of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) were earlier hoping that at least framework
for the final talks can be reached in December immediately
after the elections in the US are over.
The goal of the Doha Round is to reduce trade barriers in
order to expand global economic growth, development and
opportunity. PTI RK
AVT
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Ruchi Kapoor
Nairobi, Oct 15 (PTI) India will make yet another effort
at the ministerial level to give a push to Doha Round of WTO
trade talks before leaders of the G-20 meet in Seoul next
month.
"I will be travelling to Geneva on October 19 to meet
with the chairs of the sub-groups on agriculture, industrial
products and services," visiting Indian Commerce and Industry
Minister Anand Sharma told reporters here.
Talks of negotiating groups on different areas like
agriculture and Non-Agriculture Market Access (NAMA) are
underway, but have not seen much success in the backdrop of
the absence of positive signals from the developed countries,
particularly the US.
"The US view is that there is no shortcut to a Doha
success," US chief agricultural trade negotiator Isi Siddiqui
recently said in Brussels. He indicated the Doha negotiations,
which are running into the ninth year, may stretch into 2012.
Sharma said India had made efforts in September 2009 to
re-energise the Doha talks by convening a ministerial meeting
in New Delhi.
Besides, the country has also been raising the issue in
the G-20 summits. The issue would come up again in the next
summit in Seoul.
"We will wait for the next G-20 summit. India has a
commitment to take the present WTO round to a successful
conclusion, which will be in the interest of the global
economy," he said.
According to officials in the Commerce Ministry in New
Delhi, chances of having a deal in 2010 look bleak.
Negotiators from 153 members of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) were earlier hoping that at least framework
for the final talks can be reached in December immediately
after the elections in the US are over.
The goal of the Doha Round is to reduce trade barriers in
order to expand global economic growth, development and
opportunity. PTI RK
AVT
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