WTO MC12: Piyush Goyal backs people-first approach to world trade

Seeks a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said the 12th ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) must send a strong message that the rich care for the poor. He also said that all member nations have come together to deliver solutions towards the polycrisis the world is facing.

Speaking at the plenary session of the MC12, Goyal lashed out at rich nations.

He said that they need to ‘introspect’ for letting down the poor and developing countries amid lack of consensus on the issue of Covid vaccine equity.

“The pandemic reinforced the importance of ‘One Earth