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Kamal Nath to meet Lamy

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New Delhi: Commerce Minister Kamal Nath will go to Geneva on July 12 and meet World Trade Organisation Director-General Pascal Lamy in a bid to resolve the stalemate in global trade talks.

Mr. Lamy has been given the mandate to hold one-on-one discussions with key players in the Doha round of trade negotiations after the failure of the mini-ministerial conference in Geneva earlier this month.

Mr. Lamy will meet representatives of the U.S., the European Union, Brazil, Japan and Australia. In case there is some meeting ground on critical issues relating to agricultural subsidies and industrial tariffs, he may convene another mini-ministeral later this month, say sources.

The collapse of world trade talks is likely to figure at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, from July 15 to 17.

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