WTO must come out of ventilator and work to revive multilateralism: Prabhu

Says multilateralism is under threat on post-Covid world, calls for forward-looking, inclusive agenda

Suresh Prabhu, the prime minister's sherpa at the G20, said on Monday that the World Trade Organization is on a ventilator and it has to come out of it. 

“A new world is going to unfold and we don’t know as yet what it would look like. Multilateralism per se is under a very serious threat. The question is how to deal with this threat when it (multilateralism) is needed most," he said on a webinar organised bY Consumer Unity & Trust Society International (CUTS). 

Referring to India’s initiative following the Buenos Aires ministerial conference in December, 2017, which could not agree