New Delhi: US Secretary of State John Kerry told Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday that India`s refusal to sign a global trade deal had sent the wrong signal, and urged New Delhi to work to resolve the row as soon as possible.
A World Trade Organisation pact to ease trade collapsed on Thursday over India`s demands for concessions on agricultural stockpiling.
"Failure to sign the Trade Facilitation Agreement sent a confusing signal and undermined the very image Prime Minister Modi is trying to send about India," a U.S. State Department official told reporters after Kerry`s meeting with Modi.
Kerry was in New Delhi as part of an annual strategic dialogue to revitalise ties and lay the ground for Modi`s visit to Washington in December.
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