The 11th WTO Ministerial Conference was held from December 10 to December 13 in Buenos Aires. The Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu represented India at the conference. He addressed the plenary session on ‘Trade in Agriculture: Promoting Food Security’.
Prabhu spoke on public stockholding for food security and on protecting the interests of India’s artisanal fishermen for a proposal to eliminate fisheries subsidies.
On the sidelines of the conference, he held bilateral meetings with Jorge Faurie, Foreign Affairs Minister, Argentina and Johann N.Schneider-Ammann, Minister of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Switzerland. He discussed India-Argentina relations in political, economic, scientific and technological cooperation with Faurie.