Proceeding contribution from Alan Johnson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 20 December 2005. It occurred during Ministerial statement on WTO Conference (Hong Kong).
WTO Conference (Hong Kong)
I think that there is a lot in that. Kamal Nath is visionary, in many respects, in terms of where he wants to take the Indian economy. Nevertheless, India is a democracy. In the summer, we had the pleasure of moving from the EU summit in China straight over to India. We were reminded that things could be done in China, in terms of opening up markets, that could not be done in India because of the huge consequences for constituents. India, in particular, will be very disappointed if we do not get a good agreement on industry and services, because its focus is on that rather than on agriculture.
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