Message-ID: <19991213034537.AAE3746@jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca@LOCALNAME> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:18:54 -04 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Axworthy: "NEW GLOBAL DEMOCRACY" To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Reuters: "Seattle gathering ends on quiet note", The Vancouver Sun, 1 December, 1999.A NEW GLOBAL DEMOCRACY - AXWORTHY
In Ottawa, Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said Friday the demonstrations [in Seattle against the WTO] show that activist groups are here to stay and will in future play a greater role in defining government policy.
Speaking at a meeting to mark the second anniversary of a treaty to ban landmines, he said that such protests are "a new fact of life in international relations. You can either work with it or you can oppose it, and if you do, you can pay the consequences." Axworthy said there were clear signs of what he called "a new global democracy" in which ordinary citizens and groups were more willing to get involved in areas that have been the preserve of governments.
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