India To Push For Permanent Food Security Solution At World Trade Meet

Saturday, 11 June 2022newsdesk

India will press for a permanent solution to the issue of public stock holding of grains for food security programmes and strongly protect the interests of farmers and fishermen at the 12th ministerial meet of the World Trade Organization, beginning on Sunday.

New Delhi, 11 June 2022

As per news report of NDTV, The Indian delegation is being led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. The four-day 12th ministerial conference (MC) will start on June 12 in Geneva. The meeting is taking place after a gap of four years and in the backdrop of the Ukraine-Russia war and uncertain global economic situation. The last time it was held in Argentina in 2017. MC is the highest decision-making body of the 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO). The main issues in the meeting include WTO response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including patent waiver; agriculture and food security; WTO reforms; proposed fisheries subsidies agreement; and extension of the moratorium on electronic transmission.

Source -NDTV