Indian elections and subsequent political developments have come as a glitch to the process of evolving a new proposal on the contentious farm sector negotiations at WTO.
Brazilian Ambassador Felipe de Seixas Corra assured the ongoing WTO General Council meeting in Geneva that G-20, of which India is a key member, would make every effort to finalise a proposal before the negotiating group talks begin on June second.
But, he said, India had been in the process of installing a new government, which was something people would have to take account of, according to reports reaching here from Geneva.
At a meeting of 28 WTO trade ministers last week in Paris, the G20 and the Cairns Group of 17 agriculture exporting countries had said they would work to come up with a new market-access formula.
India's ambassador to the WTO, K M Chandrasekhar, had reportedly said on Monday that the new government in the country would need some time to "assess the situation".
The US is believed to have asked G-20 and Cairns Groups to complete their proposals in the next 10 days as such a timeline would give members enough time to digest the proposal before the agriculture negotiating group meets again.Asia Pulse:
