Ahead of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Geneva next week, India has said that protectionism by some countries need to be opposed and delay in reaching a global trade-opening deal will harm developing countries. The Commerce and Industry Minister Mr.Anand Sharma said before leaving for the 6th WTO Ministerial Meeting that New Delhi is concerned about the global economic crisis and its impact on the developing and poor countries. The three-day meeting beginning on Monday will focus on institutional issues like the functioning of the WTO secretariat. He will meet his counterparts from the US, EU as also meetings of different alliances of the developing countries. AIR correspondent adds that though the Ministerial Meeting among 153 member countries -the highest policy organ of the WTO- does not have substantive negotiations on the agenda, the progress of the Doha Round in the last eight years will come up for review on the sidelines.