Bangkok: India today (July 30, 2004) rejected the revised WTO draft for Framework as it had failed to address its concerns particularly on agriculture.

However, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath, who arrived here this afternoon to participate in the bilateral talks on the Indo-Thai Free Trade Agreement, is rushing back to Geneva to explore if a new draft acceptable to both developing and developed countries could be cobbled together.

The Minister, who received a telephone call from Geneva while he was addressing the news conference on completion of Early Harvest negotiations in Bangkok, said categorically that the new text was "not acceptable".

With no agreement in sight among the major players, the WTO General Council meeting is expected to spill over to next few days.