Prasad presents credentials to WTO Director General in Geneva

Permanent representative of India to the WTO Anjali Prasad has presented her credentials to Director General of WTO Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo yesterday in Geneva.
Prasad, a 1983-batch Uttaranchal cadre IAS officer, was Additional Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). She was handling issues related with foreign direct investment, among others.
"Prasad, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the WTO, presented her credentials to Azevedo yesterday in Geneva," an official statement issued here today said.
She was also Deputy Secretary in the Trade Policy Division of the Ministry of Commerce from 1991-1995.
Overcoming a string of failures over the years, the WTO reached a landmark agreement in the Bali meeting in December last year that can help boost global trade, while taking on board concerns of countries like India to protect its food security scheme providing subsidised grains to the poor.

Although the WTO succeeded on a few issues in the Bali meeting last year, the Doha Round of negotiations launched in 2001 have remained virtually stalled due to differences between the rich and the developing nations mainly on the level of protection for farmers in developing countries.