New Delhi: EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy on March 14 said the road to Cancun WTO
(World Trade Organisation) Ministerial was still "bumpy" but would go along with
India in several areas where there was commonality making the drive that much
easier.
"We have ahead of us a bumpy road to Cancun and we do it with animals on bumpy road.
Elephants (India, China and Brazil) are good on bumpy road," Lamy told reporters
summing up his two-day visit, which focussed on arriving at a convergence between
India and EU on several contentious WTO issues.
Terming India as an "elephant, one big animal in the multilateral trade pond," Lamy
said "we have found large number of areas in WTO agenda where our values and interest
meet. We will now see together to the run up to Cancun."
Lamy, who had detailed parleys with Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley and
Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh, said areas for joint action on agriculture have been
identified.
India and EU agree that tariff on farm products should be reduced in a phased manner,
besides elimination of export subisidies in developed countries on farm products of
interest to developing countries.
PTI