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India
Maintaining that the agriculture sector would be hit hard if the country implemented the Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN, All India Kisan Sabha today urged the Opposition Congress in Kerala to oppose the proposed treaty in the interest of state farmers.
"The [Kerala State] government's firm view is that implementation of the ASEAN agreement would trigger a grim crisis in the farm sector in the country in general and that of Kerala in particular,"an official spokesperson said.
One of India's Ministers raised concerns about the proposed India-ASEAN FTA, concerned about the negative impacts it could have domestically in India and particularly on his home state Kerala; but not all in the Cabinet of Ministers seem to support that view.
Fearing millions of farmers will suffer, Indian politicians are vehemently objecting at the eleventh hour to the almost finalised Asean-India Free Trade Agreement.
India's Defence minister A K Antony has expressed reservations against the free trade agreement with Asean, which comes up for clearance at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
It’s been a long time coming. But last week in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and the European Union finally initialled an ambitious cooperation pact aimed at revitalising a so-far uninspiring and lacklustre relationship.
The text of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to be signed between India and ASEAN has been finalised.
The treaty includes trade in goods and services as well as investments. It also contains chapters on competition and intellectual property rights. I
Instead of stopping the West and multinational drugmakers in their efforts to block India's low-cost generic drugs exports, the government is helping their cause by aggressively pursuing free trade agreements (FTAs) with developed economies -- agreements that could further hamper the world's access to such drugs.
Draft mandate for the EU negotiators, as of early 2007
