Date:30/11/2005 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/11/30/stories/2005113002560700.htm

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New Delhi , Nov. 29

THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, is to attend a meeting of the G-90 — a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries — in Brussels on Wednesday as a special invitee, in the run-up to the Hong Kong Ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation.

An official release issued here said the ACP countries have also invited the US Trade Representative, Mr Rob Portman, and the European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner, Mr Peter Mandleson, to this meeting. Besides addressing the G-90 summit, Mr Nath will also have bilateral meetings with the ministers of key African countries in Brussels where the ACP secretariat is located. Mr Nath is scheduled to attend the meeting of the G-4 (India, Brazil, EU and the US) to be held in Geneva from December 2 to 3 after the WTO General Council meeting on December 1.