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India stands up for its millions of fishermen and passes the buck to rich countries

2022-06-12T15:38:16.014Z


The country asks that the level of economic development be taken into account in the fishing quotas. 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 must recogniz


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 must recognize that countries are at different stages of development and reflect their current economic capacities

,” he told the WTO in July 2021.

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A posture that has hardly changed since.

India is asking for "

special treatment for less developed countries

", a government source told local media this week as the Commerce Ministry received a letter from fishermen's unions.

The missive urged “

the government to categorically reject the draft agreement which will destroy our livelihoods and food security…

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Source: lefigaro

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