WTO - From The Other Side!

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TCCIA praises govt for rejecting WTO proposals
Saturday, December 11, 1999 By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala

The Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (TCCIA) has 
lauded the government for rejecting World Trade Organization (WTO) protocols 
on trade and investment saying they will seriously hurt the economy if 
ratified.
"We commend the government for the stand it took in the WTO meeting in 
Seattle because the protocols have negative repercussions for third world 
countries," the TCCIA Interim Chairman, Mr Elvis Musiba, said in Dar es 
Salaam yesterday.
Mr Musiba made the remarks during a news conference on the latest WTO 
ministerial meeting held in Seattle, Washington, US from 29 November to 3 
December, which ended in an impasse.
Deep divisions appeared during the meeting between the United States, the 
European Union (EU) and Japan over agriculture and other issues.

Mr Musiba also flatly rejected the WTO protocol on trade and investment 
which prohibited awarding incentives to investors on the ground that it was 
against fair trade. He said only developed countries would benefit from the 
convention.
"The other proposal on the WTO protocols in agriculture which we are against 
is providing subsidies to farmers for inputs and implements. If African 
economies stop subsidizing agriculture, they'll simply collapse," he said.

Mr Musiba said TCCIA was planning to organise workshops and seminars to 
mobilise mass public support against the WTO.
During the WTO meeting, developing countries, led by the Industry and 
Commerce Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 
which is currently co-ordinated by Tanzania, took a common stand to reject 
the protocols.

Demonstrators in the US city of Seattle where the WTO was being held also 
took to the streets violently protesting the protocols.
Representatives from developing nations stated that the people who filled 
the streets of Seattle to demand representation and accountability gave them 
the strength to stand up for their country's rights.



>From: Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>
>To: "JS M" <jbiggs50@hotmail.com>,        "Moscow Vision 2020" <>
>Subject: Re: Urban sparwl increases
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 99 04:40:01 -0800
>
> >Statistics usually manipulate the truth, or outright lie
>Possibly, but only if the terms of ref. are omitted!  I've not seen the
>doc. but verifications are readily available in standard govt. and other
>institutional sources  monitoring development (which needs definition, of
>course -- there are all kinds of development, but in this context it
>appears that urban infrastructures and their related constructions are
>alluded to). Arable and inhabitable lands are a  fraction of the total,
>and presumably this was the ref. point. When time allows I'll give it a
>shot. Ken M.
>
>------------------------
>William K. Medlin
>Dev-plan associates
>930 Kenneth Street
>Moscow ID 83843
>208/892-0148
>dev-plan@moscow.com
>

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