New Delhi: Indian Minister for Commerce Arun Jaitley was circumspect on the outcome of the Word Trade Organisation (WTO) meet and refrained from proclaiming victory for India's stance at Cancun.

Jaitley said he would have preferred a "positive outcome" at the meeting and maintained that India will continue to engage in future processes under the WTO in a positive manner. "We will have to pick up the threads from where they have been left at Cancun and take the process ahead at the WTO."

Jaitley held that the balance of control within the WTO got altered at Cancun. Bharatiya Janata Party president M Venkaiah Naidu thanked Jaitley for his "forceful" stand. "India was able to take the leadership at Cancun by raising issues of concern to the developing countries."