India, South African Ministers ‘discussed plans for TRIPS waiver push’
The Hindu
We held talks hours before WTO meet was called off, says Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal
Hours before the , Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal spoke to his South African counterpart Ebrahim Patel over contingency plans to pilot their joint proposal for a waiver in the TRIPS agreement to counter the pandemic.
Mr. Goyal and Mr. Patel, Minister for Trade, Industry and Competition, spoke over the phone after it had become apparent late on Friday that the latter would not be able to travel to Geneva for the WTO ministerial council meeting due to travel restrictions triggered by the latest variant of the virus.
“As you know, the meeting has also been postponed and rightly so, I am glad. Even late last [Friday] night, at about 1:30 I was talking to my South African counterpart who is now not able to travel to Geneva because of the travel restrictions,” Mr. Goyal said, in his first statement on the deferral of the critical talks that were to begin on November 30.
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