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India Softens Stand On Wto Issues

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India today softened its stance on the four contentious Singapore issues of investment, trade facilitation, government procurement and competition policy and said it was willing to engage in talks if the developed countries offered market access to Indian exports, addressed the implementation issues and operationalised the special and differential provisions under WTO.

At the same time, India expressed concern that there had not been much progress on agriculture negotiations without which Cancun could be a failure.

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First Published: Mar 14 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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