Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970612041759.08af0866@mail.telecom.net.et> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 04:46:59 +0300 From: Dawit Angelo <mailto:dangelo@TELECOM.NET.ET> Subject: Re: MIA-Multilateral Agreement on Investment (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 07:40 AM 6/10/97 +0100, you wrote: >Dawit Angelo, or anyone familiar with MAI. Serious concerns were raised
>about the direction and secrecy of the MAI agreement at this weekend's
>UNED UK Building Sustainable Communities Conference, which was reviewing
>Agenda 21 in the UK.
>
>I am somewhat out of my depth trying to understand this, and it is hard
>to believe this is for real.
[...] >Could someone who does understand please confirm if I have understood
>this correctly?
>cherbert
EXACTLY. You 've got the point. The right of money is to be put above the laws of nations who are no more allowed to control thier destiny. What ever the justification is, it can't be taken for any thing less than a mechanism of blackmailing weaker nations under the threat of alienation from world trade to relinquish thier soverignity to an unelected international panel. One can't help wondering if all the alleged good intentions propagated behind The Uruagay Round, GATT, WTO, MIGA and the various so called initiatives were only a prelude to the MAI trap. What else can save us from this in deed, worst globalization scenario than an international movement of the common man? You may kindly enlighten us more on the various movements you mentioned in your post.
It was being cooked behind our back as Kerry Miller recently reported, by a so called MAI Negotating Group since last September. Word only started to spread after the report to the minsters; Report, 6/96.The WTO/OECD URLs kindly provided by Kerry Miller ; http://www.oecd.org and http://world.std.com /~dadams/MAI might help to dig up more.
bye for now Dawit