In her meeting with Azevedo, Sitharaman said that unlike

the way "we (WTO members) went not well prepared for the Nairobi (meeting in 2015), I do not want to come unprepared to Argentina. This year, I want to see discussions happening in Geneva in such a way that details are worked out".

"In the course of 11th ministerial conference (in Argentina), you have these 11 months," she said, adding issues need to be discussed threadbare about the public stock holding for food security purposes.

"These are serious issues that we need to discuss threadbare," she said, adding it is not market distorting.

On the fisheries issue, she said no body should deny the policy space of India in protecting the rights of traditional fishermen.

On trade facilitation agreement in services, Sitharaman said the team which will be going to Geneva would work with the ambassador and ensure that the proposal is taken up at various stages.

On e-commerce, she said that the WTO "may have any number of papers...but they are not on agenda for me. I will join for talk but it can't be part of my agenda in the (coming) ministerial meeting because every country has a big churn as regards ecommerce".

It will not be proper for "us to attempt to either regulate or define or get into discussions about what constitutes e-commerce...It shall not be part of the agenda unless all of us agreed and many of us are experimenting on many things on that," the minister said.

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