Trade minister Nirmala Sitharaman will raise the issue at an informal meeting of WTO trade ministers in Paris on Thursday
New Delhi: Hardening its stand on the food security issue, India will insist that countries agree to a permanent solution to the dispute over public stockholding of foodgrains by December as originally promised, even though developing nations have been granted an indefinite interim reprieve.
Trade minister Nirmala Sitharaman will raise the issue at an informal meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade ministers in Paris on Thursday ahead of the 10th WTO ministerial conference to be held in Nairobi in December.
“We are not satisfied with the peace clause for perpetuity. We need a permanent solution,” a senior commerce ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
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