Kamal Nath to attend WTO ministerial in Kenya

By agencies   |   Tuesday, 01 March 2005, 20:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: Union commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath will represent India in the meeting of the Trade Ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) mini ministerial scheduled to be held in Mombasa from 2nd - 4th March. Delegates from over 30 countries are participating the conference, it is said. Negotiations in agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) will be finalized by the Hong Kong Ministerial. It was also stressed that there should be a critical mass offer on Services as well as significant progress on rules and trade facilitation by then. The Kenya meeting is of particular importance since it is the first in a proposed series of meetings leading up to Hong Kong, that would be exclusively devoted to WTO matters, unlike in Davos, where only such Ministers who attended the World Economic Forum, participated.