New Delhi, March 28 -- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that consensus-based decision-making is the bedrock of the WTO's legitimacy highlighting the need to provide fair opportunity for member countries to participate meaningfully in global trade.
Speaking on 'Decision making including past mandates' on the second day of the WTO Ministerial Conference (MC) 14 in Yaounde, Cameroon, Goyal said that it is important for the WTO not to ignore the sovereign right of each member to not bind itself to rules which they do not agree to.
India stressed the importance of the WTO to undertake a careful stock-taking of the current impasse and the underlying causes, while ensuring discussions remain transparent, inclusive, an...