week: 8-14 December
• With just a week for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) ministerial meeting to commence in Nairobi, talks remain deadlocked with no end in sight for India’s demand to find a permanent solution to its food security problem.
• While the G-33, a developing country grouping including India, is insisting that a permanent solution to Delhi’s concern be found in the Kenyan capital, there is stiff resistance from the developed countries, which grudgingly accepted a permanent peace clause that will prevent any WTO member from raising a dispute even in case of a breach of the cap on procuring food products.