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G-20 ministers to focus on farm trade, nudge WTO talks forward

AFP, New Delhi
Trade ministers from 20 developing countries meet Friday in India to focus on hotly disputed farm subsidies and seek ways to nudge forward the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.
The G-20 ministerial meeting from March 18-19 in the Indian capital comes ahead of December's crucial Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the WTO.
Agriculture is a perennial WTO problem with the United States, European Union, and Japan under pressure to cut the tariffs and subsidies that protect theirfarmers.
They have made offers, but developing countries do not think theygofarenough.
India, Brazil, China, Argentina and 16 other developing countries banded together to form the G-20 (group of 20 nations) at a failed WTO meeting in Cancun to press the rich nations to slash farm subsidies.
"The meeting in New Delhi will evolve the G-20 strategy and position in the ensuing (WTO) multilateral trade negotiations in the months ahead, within the broader framework of the Hong Kong Ministerial conference scheduled for later this year," said Indian Trade
MinisterKamal Nath.
"At this G-20 meeting in Delhi we will see the crucial players who will give a momentum to the WTO negotiations," he added.
"We will look at critical issues in agriculture. The G-20 has been recognized as an effective negotiating entity that has changed the dynamics of agriculture sector negotiations."
India, a key player in the G-20 that Iobbied for reform of farm trade at the 2003 meeting in Cancun, has called on developing countries to "stay united."
"We are very happy to host this
G-20 meeting because developing countries have to pool their collective strength. We have to stay united against a small clutch of rich nations," said Nath.
The minister emphasized that the G-20 wanted the WTO process "to really move on."
"Engagement must continue because getting the multilateral trading system to survive is in the interest of all of us," said Nath. "Political inputs are necessary in order to break the logjam on various technical matters among the WTO members."