Dear all, This came across my screen from France. It may be of interest to all those who have been battling the MAI at home. David >X-BlackMail: venise.magic.fr, venise.magic.fr, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 195.115.16.4 >X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 11:58:55(EDT) on May 09, 1998 >Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 17:49:41 +0200 (MET DST) >X-Mailer: Eudora F1.5.3 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ecoropa) >Subject: FWD: All Point Alert: NTM LIVES! >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > 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[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:48:00 -0400 >>From: LORI WALLACH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sender: LORI WALLACH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Organization: Public Citizen >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Asia Pacific Center), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beth Burrows), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fondation Bellerive), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Corporate Europe Observatory), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Arden-Clarke), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rosanna Picillo), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Wiehoff), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred Eckes), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ecoropa), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eeva Simola), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faith Weiss), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (German Watch), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Humberto Campodonico), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IFG), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaron Bourke), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey Barber), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jozsef Feiler), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy R Madsen), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jock Nash), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonia Juhasz), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KMies28561), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maud Johansson), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Schmitz), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Lackey), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark levinson), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Ritchie), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michelle Sforza), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Vallianatos), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MValli), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Wetherhorn), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Naiman), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niel Ritchie), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olivier Hoedeman), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Madaus), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play Fair Europe!), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruth Caplan), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Healey), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Weissman), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Bassin), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Billenness), [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Malini Mehra), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Global Trade Watch), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsiguereda Walelign), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Khor), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Third World Network), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Menotti), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Hines), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vandana Shiva), >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zac Goldsmith) >>Subject: FWD: All Point Alert: NTM LIVES! >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >> >>Please help get the word out -- DISTRIBUTE BROADLY -- Source is confidential >>EU memorandum -- NTM, WTO, Burma all covered below: >> >>The so-called New TransAtlantic Marketplace (NTM) otherwise know as the >>US-EU NAFTA called TransAtlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) is alive and >>well. Reports from the week of the OECD MAI Ministerial that the NTM has >>been killed off by the EU External Ministers is FALSE. >> >>Despite the total lack of negotiating authority having been delegated to the >>US executive by the US Congress as required in our federal constitution, the >>US and EU plan to announce the formal launch of two year TAFTA negotiations >>at the May 18 Summit. It will include the investment agenda, Genetically >>Modified Organisms, ending human rights investment sanctions and >>harmonization of Food, Health, Environmental standards for sure. >> >>All of this information comes from a May 5, 1998 internal Communique from >>the "Senior Level Group" of EU DG 1 reporting to EU Missions about the EU-US >>Meeting. Unfortunately I was not able to take away a copy, but was able to >>read and take notes. Sentences in quotation marks are direct quotes from the >>memo which I copied into my notes. >> >>The following was reported -- by the way, with chapeau language noting that >>following the Brussels External Ministers meeting on April 27, certain >>"procedural issues" (??? - sic) were taken into account during the US-EU >>Summit planing meeting that is the subject of the memo. Reported from the >>meeting was: >> >>1. Negotiations continue between the US and EU on the launch statement and >>formal negotiating framwork document to be released at the May US-EU Summit >>for formal negotiation launch. It will be short, but specific in laying out >>commitments. >> >>2. "US (Eizenstadt) would welcome a statement on the proposed NTMA >>negotiating program as specific as possible at the Summit." >> >>3. Eizenstadt confirmed the "full suppport of the US government agencies" to >>the EU proposal for "a siginificant initiative" to be completed in a two >>year negotiation. (Lori's note: not true, EPA and others have troubles!) >> >>4. US delegation reported at meeting that their meetings with French >>government representatives prior to this meeting confirmed EU level >>assurances that the actual French position is less oppositional to >>initiation of NTM at Summit than was expressed for "public consumption" at >>the April 17, 1998 meeting of EU external ministers. >> >>5. US was reminded that successful negotiations will be promoted by >>settlement of pending issues about US unilateral investment sanctions. >> >>When I asked several EU contacts in Europe what had happened to the supposed >>"death" of the NTM via the External Ministers declaration, they said that >>this high level meeting had followed the Ministers meeting and they were >>going forward as always planned! >> >>Also -- they noted that the "spin" US and EU representatives would use was >>that "environment and labor" were being included in the NTM agenda. But, >>that was this meant that there would be a private sector advisory group like >>that planned for establishment under FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) >>to allow NGO input. Neither labor nor environment and/or their relations to >>investment/trade issues were to be negotiating topics themselves, however, >>except perhaps to reference support for inclusion of GATT Artcile XX-like >>exceptions for plant, animal, human life and health, etc.. >> >> >>Also, on related items from this US-EU meeting: >> >>ON WTO MINISTERIAL -- 1. US-EU common agenda of priorities for ministerial >>are: >>a) reaffirm importance of multilateral trade system >>b) promote full implimentation of Uruguay Round >>c) highlight the positive effects of world trade on growth and employment >>d) commitments for further liberalization >>e) press importance of work on WTO accession cases now pending >> >>NOTE: NOTHING HERE ON TRANSPARANCY OR ENVIRONMENT! Just an amusing point of >>difference between the rhetoric our assorted govts are dishing out and what >>they really mean to do at the WTO Ministerial... same old, same old. >> >>Also -- Eizenstad reiterated that the US would NOT be amused to be surprised >>by an EU call for much less a Ruggerio anouncement of hopes for a Millenium >>Round of GATT negotiations. >> >>ALSO: ON BURMA INVESTMENT BAN -- The memo had a section on this issue which >>noted that the EU was still considering "if Rushing's offer to weaken the >>law was sufficient to solve the concrete problem." It noted that Eizenstadt >>communicated to DG1 that Rushing (who is the Massachusetts legislator who >>passed the original law) wished to meet one more time with the EU >>representatives and also noted that the EU's seeming disinterest in this and >>the filing of the domestic court case against the law might be taken into >>account by Rushing as far as the amount of effort he exerts in passing this >>ameolorative amendment. >> >>YIKES! What plan of action should be pursued? In France? In EU? In US where >> Congress has said no to NTM. >> >> >>Lori M. Wallach >>215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE >>Washington DC 20003 USA >>ph: 1-202-546-4996 x307 >>fax: 1-202-547-7392 >> >
