The country asks that the level of economic development be taken into account in the fishing quotas.
New Delhi
It is a somewhat resentful India that is joining the WTO negotiating table. On the very sensitive file of the end of subsidies which encourage overfishing, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has been camped for months on the same line: the developed nations must bear the burden. “The countries that subsidize the most must take greater responsibility. (…) Any agreement should recognize that countries are at different stages of development and reflect their current economic capacities“, he told the WTO in July 2021.
A posture that has hardly changed since. India asksspecial treatment for less developed countries“, said a government source in the local press this week as the Ministry of Commerce received a letter from the fishermen’s unions. The missive urged “the government to categorically reject the draft agreement that will destroy our livelihoods and security…
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