India sticks to stand on fisheries, farm subsidies amid WTO D-G visit

This comes as WTO D-G reaches India for three-day visit

India will continue to stand its ground on long-pending issues pertaining to agriculture and fisheries subsidies at the World Trade Organization (WTO), said a senior government official on Wednesday.
 
Even as India has been keen on finalising fisheries subsidies agreement at the WTO, with irrational subsidies and overfishing by many countries hurting Indian fishermen, it has maintained that in its current shape, the agreement is not balanced.
 
“The present text is imbalanced. Only when India's suggestion is considered and incorporated suitably, will it be a balanced text for negotiations. The present text cannot form the basis of negotiations.