Nirmala Sitharaman meets WTO officials amidst India’s push for IPR waiver on Covid vaccines

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met top WTO officials in US amidst India’s push for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday met the Director General of WTO Ngozi Okonjo Iweala here in the US amidst India’s proposal for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and medicines worldwide.

The meeting between Sitharaman and Iweala took place on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF annual meetings.