New Delhi, July 29 - Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said he was looking forward to hosting the September meeting among global trade ministers to put the derailed global trade talks back on track.

India had proposed to host the mini-ministerial meeting of the 153-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) at the G20 Summit in London, which was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, where leaders agreed to give a political push to trade talks.

'Technical discussions at WTO will resume this month. By the end of July we can expect to have the roadmap for the negotiations. Full fledged negotiations will most probably resume in September,' Sharma told an industry conference here.

'But a quick closure is unlikely, given the large number of issues remaining unresolved. A lot of momentum has been generated to re-start the Doha discussions but the road ahead is filled with challenges,' he told the conference organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

According to Sharma, the September mini-ministerial meeting of WTO in India will include representatives from the US, EU, as also various groups with offensive interests in farm sector and market access.