New Delhi, March 4 -- New Delhi: India has sought to formalise and strengthen commitments on the transfer of relevant and advanced technologies to developing and least developed countries ahead of the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Yaounde, Cameroon, from 26-29 March, by circulating a draft ministerial declaration that calls for institutionalising the technology transfer agenda within the multilateral trading system, according to a WTO document reviewed by Mint.

In a communication submitted to the WTO and published by WTO on 2 March, India proposed that members agree on a structured and time-bound process to facilitate access to advanced technologies, particularly environmentally sound technologies (...