Reiterating its commitment to multilateralism, India on Tuesday said a dialogue process at the World Trade Organisation should restart to end the stalemate which resulted in the collapse of the Ministerial at Cancun.
"India is anxious that dialogue should proceed. India is committed to multilateralism and that stalemate at Cancun get resolved," Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said at the valedictory session of India Economic Summit in New Delhi.
He said that in areas like non-agricultural market access where there were less divergences, could be taken up initially and added that dialogue on Singapore issues should proceed where they were left at Cancun.
Stating that contacts had been re-established within individual countries, Jaitley said in a video conference from Bhopal that this dialogue has to converge into a greater dialogue at political level to end the impasse and to move forward.
"Global trade has to go on...global dialogue has to go on. Cancun was only a mid-point in the process of discussion," he said, adding after the December round of official level discussions contact at political level will have to be re-established.
