India not to push services agenda at WTO meet

WTO's biennial ministerial conference is the biggest multilateral consultation among nations regarding global trade and investment norms

India will not be pushing its proposal of a global trade facilitation agreement on services trade at the upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) meet in December.

Instead, the country will throw its weight behind the demand to find a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding of food for food security purposes and domestic subsidy to the agriculture sector, India’s ambassador to the WTO, JS Deepak has said. 

The WTO’s biennial ministerial conference — to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina — is the biggest multilateral consultation among nations regarding global trade and investment norms. It is expected to set the