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Cancłn Conference
As usual, it is necessary to look at the facts from
different angles: if we see things from the side of the great
economic powers (the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada) then
it can be seen as a failure; if we change the viewing angle and see
it from the side of the poor countries (the so-called poor front)
headed by China, Cancłn represents an historical turning point.
Nobody is against the WTO, but the idea that the rules of
capitalism should be secondary to those of solidarity is an idea
which is becoming increasingly widespread (and this is the great
socioeconomic revolution of the third millennium).
Everyone
knows the famous European law which gives incentives to the
non-cultivation of some seed products like grain, barley, corn, rye,
rape, sunflower, peas etc (the set aside) to support prices and the
European market in the international panorama. I think that the
entire General Directorate for European Agriculture (together with
the parliament) should be called before an international tribunal
for this criminal and unscrupulous policy.
Do you know how
much the quantity of seed products annually retired through the Reg.
EEC n. 1094/88 and its subsequent changes and variations amounts to?
We have made an estimate on the low side: around 22.000.000 of tons
of product, that annually would have been able to feed around
60.000.000 people (we repeat these figures are optimistically given
and undervalued, hoping that someone proves us wrong). Imagine how
many human lives (above all children) could have been saved. Is this
the European policy that we are proud of?
After Auschwitz
this is (together with others, still in progress) one of the great
holocausts of our time and all of us are responsible for it.
All that had to be done was to continue the production and give
these excess products to the "poor countries", even at a political
price.
Cancłn has said no to this way of governing the
world, perhaps without reflecting very much on these capitalistic
aberrations.
Cancłn has confirmed that such good values as
the right to food, health, education, water and environment are
"rights" that must be protected and not "commodities governed by
the merciless rules of the supply and demand.
Cancłn has
decreed the entry of conscience into capitalism.
It is not
so much the "the poor front" - the "G21" - with China, India and
Brazil at its head which drives this revolution, but history which
asks for a different sense and a fulfilment for itself. The Berlin
wall fell, decreeing the failure of communism; capitalism without a
conscience is also collapsing; we are now waiting for an epoch where
economy, society and the environment are reconsidered in a single
equation.
We are waiting for the birth of Solidarity" as
the only socioeconomic model that guarantees everything and
everybody.
At Cancłn, this path has found its start.
The Final Document
1. In conclusion of our
fifth Ministerial Conference in Cancśn, we would like to express our
deep appreciation to the Mexican government and people for the
excellent organization and warm hospitality with which we have
received in Cancśn.
2. At this meeting we have welcomed
Cambodia and Nepal as the first least developed countries to enter
the WTO since its establishment.
3. All participants have
worked hard and constructively to continue in the way of progress as
required under the Doha mandates. We believe, therefore, have made a
considerable step. We must go a long way, especially in some key
areas, to be able to align the conclusion of negotiations as well as
the commitments we took at Doha.
4. So we invite everyone to
work on these important issues with a renewed sense of urgency and
motivation to fully take into account all the views we have
expressed in this Conference. We therefore ask the President of the
General Council, in consultation with the Director General, to
coordinate this work and schedule a meeting of the General Council
at the latest by December 15, 2003 groped for a return to the path
of negotiations in order to move toward a conclusion successful and
timely negotiations. In the meantime, continue to exert pressure to
ensure that this process occurs supervision.
5. We will thus,
in this new phase all the valuable work that has been done in this
conference. In those areas where we have arrived at a high level of
convergence on the documents, we want to maintain this convergence
while working for an overall conclusion of the negotiations and
acceptable.
6. Despite this setback, we reaffirm all
statements and decisions of Doha and we intend to work to perfect
them fully and faithfully.
Guido Bissanti
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