-Thomson Reuters
India is confident that it will be able to persuade members of the 160-strong World Trade Organisation to understand its concerns over food security which derailed a global trade deal last week, said Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament today.
The minister explained India’s stand: that the Bali trade accord, an agreement reached on the Indonesian tourist island last year, should be concluded as a package, linking India’s ratification of a trade facilitation treaty to movement on a parallel treaty on stockpiling of food.
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