India and the US have the political will to conclude the long-delayed World Trade Organisation’s Doha round, Simon Crean, Australia’s trade minister, said on Wednesday.

Speaking on the eve of a meeting of 39 trade ministers in New Delhi, Mr Crean said the talks were in their final stage and called for an intensification of negotiations. “So far as the round is concerned, we are very close to its conclusion,” he said. “We are now in the end-game of the Doha negotiations.”