MACHETERA; MORALES on the WTO Negotiations Round

[magbana]

Evo Morales on the WTO Negotiations Round
July 22, 2008 · No Comments

In Regard to the WTO Negotiations Round

Evo Morales

Translation: Machetera

International trade can play a major role in the promotion of economic development and the alleviation of poverty. We recognize the need for all our peoples to benefit from the increased opportunities and welfare gains that the multilateral trading system generates. The majority of WTO members are developing countries. We seek to place their needs and interests at the heart of the Work Programme adopted in this Declaration. - DOHA World Trade Organization Ministerial 2001: Ministerial Declaration

With these words, a round of negotiations began at the WTO seven years ago. Were economic development, the alleviation of poverty, the necessities of all our people and an increase in opportunities for developing countries really at the heart of the ongoing negotiations at the WTO?

The first thing I must say is that were it so, the 153 member countries and above all, the great majority of developing countries should have been the main players in the WTO negotiations. But what we're seeing is that a handful of 35 countries are invited by the Director General to informal meetings in order to substantially advance in the negotiations and prepare the agreements for this "Development Round" of the WTO.

The WTO negotiations have become a fight by the developed countries to open the markets of developing countries in favor of their big businesses.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. This is really good, magbana. It makes some of us really depressed, knowing greedy bullies

do not respond to appeals to conscience. Theirs were buried long ago.

There are so many victims, however, that eventually the world is going to know the collective victims WILDLY outnumber those parasites who've been exploiting them. Eventually they will come to an end of ways to bribe poor people into turning against their fellow man for profit, to get ahead, to achieve promises of wealth, security, social mobility.

We all know by now, if we read much that social mobility now is no more likely than it was in the 1950's. Probably less. Eventually people are going to see through the illusion, the "dream," and move to improve the world they have to share with others, for COMMON advantage, not personal, derived at someone else's expense.