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Government claim on WTO bogus, alleges Swamy

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, AUG. 5. The Janata party president, Subramanian Swamy, said today that the United Progressive Alliance Government's claim of "success" at the recent finalisation of the WTO draft agreement on agriculture was "entirely bogus and on [a] par with the Bharatiya Janata Party's claim of India Shining."

In a statement here, he said the key issues left over in the Cancun Ministerial-level meeting of the World Trade Organisation were the unresolved issues of subsidy and market access for agricultural exports of developing countries to developed countries. "This was not adopted because the host, Mexico, abruptly called off the meeting and declared the conference closed. Now, India has signed on the dotted line in Geneva last week, the very same Cancun draft. What, however, is utterly surprising is that the market access promise made in Cancun has been watered down and India has quietly lumped it," he said.

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