Shri Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry, leaves to attend the meeting of the G-6 scheduled to be held in London from 10th to 12th March, 2006.
It is a gathering of trade ministers of six countries viz., the European Union (EU), USA, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan, to discuss the Doha Development Agenda and issues in the context of the Hong Kong Declaration adopted at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to carry forward the process of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
India and Brazil represent the G-20 grouping in the G-6.
Shri Kamal Nath will articulate the interests and concerns of developing countries at the meeting in the key areas of the ongoing negotiations such as agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA).
The issues discussed at the Hong Kong Ministerial related to the reduction of domestic support, elimination of export subsidies, sensitive products, special products and special safeguard mechanism in agriculture; elimination of export subsidies and accelerated reduction in domestic support in cotton; non-agricultural market access; services; development package for least developed countries and other development issues under the Doha Work Programme.
The G-6 meeting aims to have an exchange of views on various issues on the agenda in order to narrow down the differences between the developed country and developing country perspectives as far as possible in order to facilitate discussions in the larger body of the WTO membership so as to meet the various deadlines for finalisation of modalities for further negotiations, as mandated by the Hong Kong Declaration.
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