Copenhagen: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on October 9 night asked the European Union to address the concerns of developing countries by dismantling high agricultural subsidies and other non-tariff barriers and signalled economic reforms would not be reversed.

Addressing the EU business leaders, Vajpayee asserted there can be no "shock therapy approach" to India's economic reforms which were being implemented with a "human face".

"The Indian economy is often identified with the elephant. But once they actually start moving, the momentum is very difficult to divert, slow, stop or reverse," he said.

The Prime Minister's remarks came ahead of the third India-EU Summit on October 10.

PTI