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India's attitude at the WTO needs to be constructive

The 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is fast approaching. It is to be held from November 20 onwards in Geneva, and will focus on a new agreement regarding fishing subsidies; progress on pandemic-related intellectual property issues and trade restrictions; and questions on how to incorporate climate change-related issues into trading norms. Of course, broader questions about WTO reform, including fixing the broken dispute settlement system, will never be off the radar. India is being seen as a broad impediment to addressing many of these questions; the WTO’s secretary-general visited New Delhi last month, and United States