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Shourie to lead Indian delegation to WTO mini-ministerial
New Delhi, July 26: Disinvestment minister Arun Shourie will lead the Indian delegation to the two-day WTO mini-ministerial in Montreal beginning on Monday which provided for narrowing down differences on contentious issues in multilateral trade negotiations.
Opposition parties have served a privilege notice in Parliament against Jaitley, entrusted with the task of
defending the government in the debate on the issue in both houses of Parliament early this week.
The Montreal mini-ministerial is perhaps the last before the WTO ministerial at Cancun in Mexico in September. The mini-ministerial assumes significance as strategies is expected to evolved narrow differences on contentious issues like agriculture, trips and public health and four Singapore issues of investment, competition, government procurement and trade facilitation.
Before Jaitley took over commerce portfolio early this year, Shourie was temporarily incharge of the ministry during which he led the Indian delegation to the Sydney mini-ministerial late last year.
Bureau Report