India blames no one for Cancun flop: Jaitley

Describing the Cancun WTO meet as a historic turn, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that India will not blame anyone for the collapse of the meeting.

He said the country will continue to engage in the future World Trade Organisation negotiations positively.

"Now the blame game is on. India is not going to take part in it. We will continue to engage positively till the end. We will have to pick up the threads from where they have been left at Cancun and take the process ahead at WTO," Jaitley said after his felicitation at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi.

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Pointing out that the equilibrium at WTO had changed, he said for the first time in its history there were equitable negotiations with developing countries led by India, Brazil and China being able to make themselves heard forcefully.

"This was a change which was visible in this meeting (Cancun). The combined voice of developing nations was being heard at par with rich nations like Us and EU," he said.

Taking a dig at European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy who called WTO a medieval organisation after Cancun collapse, he said it was only in ancient institutions that unilateral decisions were made and the multilateral organisation had become truly democratic now by listening even to developing countries' concerns.

"This change would have to be accepted by the western world who always thought they could divide the developing nations' alliances by putting pressure," he said.