WTO talks on brink of collapse as US rejects solution to food security

India has been maintaining that permanent solution to food stockpile issue was a 'must have' at the ongoing ministerial

Talks at the 11th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is on the brink of collapse, with the US refusing to engage in the effort to find a permanent solution to the public stock-holding issue, official sources said.

On the third-day of the conference here, Assistant US Trade Representative Sharon Bomer Lauritsen said during a small group meeting that a permanent solution to the food stock-holding issue was not acceptable to America, the sources said.

With the US not participating in the negotiation on the crucial issue, which the 11th ministerial is mandated to deliver, talks would collapse,