India has reiterated the need to deliver on long-standing mandates, including finding a permanent solution to the issue of special safeguard mechanism and cotton, particularly in view of the 14th ministerial conference being hosted by Cameroon in March next year, a domestic news agency reported.
The conference is the WTO’s highest decision-making body.
"India emphasised that cotton was an important and sensitive matter domestically with a situation similar to that of some of the other cotton-producing countries in terms of farmers' vulnerabilities since cotton is grown in arid areas by small and marginal farmers," said the report.
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