India, along with 16 other key World Trade Organization (WTO) economies, on Tuesday called for the urgent appointment of judges to the appellate body of the WTO. The issue threatens to derail dispute settlement between nations.
The mini-ministerial held by India also saw nations commit to multilateralism, and bat for special trade rule provisions for developing and least developed countries (LDCs), that have been under attack from richer nations.
Amid an increasing push by powerful nations, such as the United States (US), to run roughshod over WTO rules by calling them biased, the two-day meet - which concluded on Tuesday