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Kamal Nath to lead Indian team at WTO meet
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Dec 6
THE Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, today clarified that India would not agree to any tradeoff in its agricultural interests against the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) at the forthcoming Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
"Agriculture is determined by an artificiality of prices created by distortion. The others (NAMA, services) are not embedded with distortion. So we cannot say agriculture can be a tradeoff against NAMA," Mr Nath told newspersons.
Mr Nath will lead the Indian delegation to the Sixth Ministerial Conference from December 13 to December 18.
Senior officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and Cooperation), Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Finance (revenue department) will accompany him.
The agenda for the meeting includes negotiations on agriculture, services, NAMA, trade related intellectual property rights, trade and environment, trade facilitation and other issues covered under the Doha Ministerial mandate.
In the run-up to the Hong Kong Ministerial, Mr Nath held wide-ranging consultations with all stakeholders, including representatives of political parties, farmers associations and other non-governmental bodies, industry and trade bodies, and research institutions including experts on agriculture, services, NAMA, environment, trade facilitation and so on.
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