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	WTO 1999
		Unless the WTO becomes transparent and accountable to the people and works for the promotion of trade arrangements that are fair and benefit the people around the globe, there is no room for this organization in our global village.
		The WTO trade regime favours the powerful corporations and financial institutions whose interests are to maximize profits for themselves and not to improve the lives of the working people and their families.
		The WTO also severely undermines democratic local and global governance, openness and accountability to the people all of which are basic to creating conditions for equitable sharing and stewardship of the world's riches.
	www.wilpf.int.ch /statements/1999wto.htm (621 words)

	WTO MC6: Annex C of GATS at Larvatus Prodeo
		Now, despite the fact that only a small group of countries had drafted this text, and the fact that the rest of the member states of the WTO had been very clear that they did not agree with the text, it was brought to the Ministerials as the ONLY text to be discussed during negotiations.
		As I understand it the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999 blew up because the poor countries were sick of being screwed and sick of the procedural unfairness.
		Their agenda on the WTO is of course to bury the damn thing, it being counterproductive in terms of develpoment and beyond redemption.
	larvatusprodeo.net /2005/12/17/wto-mc6-annex-c-of-gats (1860 words)

	Center for Strategic and International Studies
		The WTO's consensus-based approach to decision-making, which was adopted at a time when its predecessor organization, the GATT, had roughly two dozen members, has proven extremely unwieldy in an organization with more than 140 members.
		The late-1999 WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle demonstrated that developing nations are ready to use their numerical strength to oppose consensus on key issues.
		WTO members are having difficulty making decisions on cutting-edge trade issues on a timetable consistent with the pace of change in global markets.
	www.csis.org /schollchair/seminars (2276 words)

	CFACT: WTO meet sparks protests, debate over free trade
		The WTO, of course, has as its mission the advancement of free trade and serves as a forum for nations to negotiate trade agreements and settle trade disputes.
		Also present, as has been the case ever since the Seattle WTO meeting in 1999, were large numbers of anti-globalization protestors.
		Their aim is to demonize and weaken the WTO." The WTO was established for the primary purpose of facilitating international trade, he maintained, and anti-trade NGOs disingenuously attempt to incorporate other issues into the WTO such as the environment, labor, and medicine in an effort to discredit the purpose of the WTO.
	www.cfact.org /site/print.asp?idarticle=938 (1318 words)

	The real battle for Seattle, 5 Dec 1999 \| Special reports \| The Observer
		More than 500,000 Indians demonstrated against the WTO's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the agenda of powerful groups such as the Movimento Sem Terra (the Landless) in Brazil and the Zapatistas in Mexico are beginning to forge a new global ideology of resistance to corporate expansion.
		With the WTO to focus on, new networks of opposition to free trade and neo-liberalism are forming to challenge national governments.
		But the greatest irony is this: if the WTO itself collapses there will be no world forum for the poorest to at least ventilate their concerns and protect their own interests.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /global/story/0,10786,525093,00.html (1587 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Doha dwarfed by disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the meeting drew to a close, the news of the New York plane crash gripped the attention of all and security concerns mounted in anticipation of a possible terrorist plot behind the incident.
		WTO membership will open more markets for China's rapidly expanding economy but will also expose its inefficient, over- staffed industries to merciless foreign competition as tariffs are lowered and trade barriers gradually torn down.
		Some Gulf States attending the Doha meeting tried to utilise it as a venue to raise the issue of heavy duties imposed by the European Union on their exports from petrochemicals and aluminum.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/560/in1.htm (791 words)

	WTO Overview Citizens Trade Campaign Fair Trade
		According to the WTO's organizational statement, its objective is to "help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly and predictably." In practice, however, the WTO acts as a global enforcement mechanism for corporate-managed trade at the expense of social, environmental, and development interests.
		Though the WTO claims to be a democratic institution, this is far from the case.
		WTO tribunals are made up of three “trade experts” (nominated by their governments and not answerable to any other authority than WTO law) whose mandate is to consider only the trade implications of their decisions, not social or environmental factors.
	www.citizenstrade.org /cafta/wtoexplained.php (1667 words)

	CNN - Seattle mayor declares civil emergency as WTO unrest grows - November 30, 1999
		The mission of the WTO is to create a prospering global economy, increasing the flow of goods and services around the world.
		"The WTO is going to write the framework that will dictate how global commerce is done and our problem is that the vast majority of people in the world (have no representative to speak on their behalf at the Seattle conference)," said Chuck Collins, co-director of United for a Fair Economy.
		WTO General-Director Mike Moore appealed to activists to protest peacefully.
	www.cnn.com /US/9911/30/wto.03 (1020 words)

	1999.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The failure of the W.T.O Ministerial meeting in Seattle was a historic watershed.
		WTO Set for Showdown on Labour Rights -- The US set the stage at the weekend for a showdown in talks on the agenda for a new world trade round by tabling a controversial proposal that the World Trade Organisation should examine the links between international trade and labour.
		WTO is weakening health laws, Nader says -- Detailing criticisms likely to form the basis for much of the protest in Seattle next month, Ralph Nader today is releasing a study of the World Trade Organization alleging that the WTO is undermining environmental and public health laws around the world.
	www.globalexchange.org /wto/1999.html (2339 words)

	Public Citizen \| 1999 WTO Ministerial Seattle - WTO Ministerial In Seattle
		The GATT Uruguay Round Agreements and the establishment of the WTO were proclaimed as a means of enhancing the creation of global wealth and prosperity and promoting the well being of all people in all member states.
		In reality, however, the WTO has contributed to the concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich few; increased poverty for the majority of the world's peoples, especially in third world countries; and brought forth unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.
		The WTO and GATT Uruguay Round Agreements have functioned principally to push open markets for the benefits of transnational corporations at the expense of national and international economies; workers, farmers, indigenous peoples, women and other social groups; food security and safety; the environment; and animal welfare.
	www.citizen.org /trade/wto/Qatar/seattle_mini (301 words)

	WTO and the Destruction of the Brazilian Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Menotti was one of the hundreds of peaceful protesters arrested during the Seattle WTO meeting late November 1999.
		The WTO was established in 1995 by GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) to ensure that global free trade is carried out without legislative barriers, such as compliance with strict environmental laws.
		WTO investment rules would institutionalize "cut-and-run" logging around the world and prevent governments from favoring local entities which may be more accountable to the land and its inhabitants.
	isla.igc.org /Features/Brazil/braz3.html (856 words)

	01.22.oder.html
		The meeting of all 142 WTO member nations was the follow-up to the failed 1999 Seattle meeting.
		Despite WTO pledges at the time to dialogue with civil society, the present meeting was scheduled for Doha, the capital of the tiny Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar.
		From a political point of view, the WTO is run by a gang of lobbyists and free-trade fundamentalists who work for the global elites.
	www.populist.com /01.22.oder.html (1723 words)

	Does Corporate Social Responsibility Pay Off - Graziadio Business Report
		The 1999 WTO meeting is uniquely suited to measuring the economic effect of a firm’s reputation for social responsibility.
		WTO delegates in Geneva abandon efforts to set the agenda for the Seattle ministerial meeting prior to the meeting; delegates decide instead to work on agenda during Seattle meeting.
		In the case of the Seattle WTO failure, firms in industries that were the target of protest – the allegedly environmentally damaging and labor abusing industries – suffered a decline in market capitalization of over three percent if the firms were not known for social responsibility.
	gbr.pepperdine.edu /042/responsibility.html (2408 words)

	Sweet Nothings - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
		But after the violent clashes surrounding the 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle and the September 11 attacks, a deal to begin enlarging the scope of global markets through the WTO was seen as a virility symbol of multilateralism.
		The mood at the WTO's headquarters has been soured by the selfishness of the EU and the US; so much so that the negotiators from Brussels and Washington realise that their own goals - cracking open new markets for their multinationals - are at risk.
		An elite group of trade ministers has been meeting in Sydney this week to assess the progress made since Doha and to chart a course for a gather ing of all 145 WTO member states in Cancun next September, scheduled to be the halfway point in the talks.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/bwi-wto/wto/2002/1116nothings.htm (1328 words)

	Salt of the Earth: December 1999 social justice news
		December 2, 1999 (Seattle, Washington)—Seattle was stunned this week by an occasionally unruly but for the most part peaceful onslaught of environmentalists, labor organizers, food safety activists, and youthful anarchists that descended on the city of mellow roast and soggy sunsets during the triannual meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
		Bringing the WTO out into public view is a success in itself because they rely on obscurity." Nova adds that the Seattle protests have put the WTO and other trade and economic issues on the political voting map in the United States, where he's convinced they will remain.
		The WTO, headquartered in Geneva, is an international body empowered by GATT (The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) to set world trade rules and arbitrate trade disputes.
	salt.claretianpubs.org /sjnews/1999/12/wto.html (960 words)

	Abstract 7: World Trade Organization Meets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In what seemed to be a reference to the ill-fated 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle, Washington he said, "...we cannot tolerate another failure.
		APEC trade and foreign ministers specified that the next WTO meeting address the concerns of developing economies in the agenda for the meetings.
		Chinese officials were to meet later with the Mexicans, who have become the last negotiators China must face in reaching a bilateral trade deal that is a precondition for letting China into the WTO.
	gaius.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu /afef/_disc2/00000097.htm (460 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| The best laid plans
		The vast majority of the WTO's 146 member states are poor developing countries, most of which demand that the development dimension must be taken seriously at the Cancun meeting.
		Identifying the WTO as an instrument of exploitation and oppression.
		The Cancun gathering follows the fourth WTO ministerial conference which took place in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001 and which was overshadowed by the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/655/in1.htm (1639 words)

	Africa Trade Network Statement Opposes New WTO Round
		Their common front worked to strengthen the position of African governments at the 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle, and did so again in Doha.
		We are appalled at the fact that the preparations towards the Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Doha have been characterized by the undemocratic and untransparent working methods of the WTO which have always marginalized African and other developing countries members of the WTO and undermined their interests.
		The Draft Declaration issued by the Chairman of the General Council of the WTO completely ignored the views and demands of African countries which these countries have clearly articulated both within formal structures of the WTO as well as in their own forums.
	www.50years.org /cms/ejn/story/110 (655 words)

	SierraActivist.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi said it was time for members to agree on removing barriers to trade, saying "there comes a time when rhetoric has to be backed by action."
		The meeting was an extension of talks begun nearly two years ago in Doha, Qatar.
		The WTO solved a big problem shortly before the Cancun meeting when it agreed on a system allowing poor countries to import cheap copies of drugs to treat diseases like AIDS and malaria.
	sierraactivist.org /print.php?sid=33783 (523 words)

	World Trade Organization Meeting 1999
		Their objective is to convince the WTO to enforce Western standards on Third-World countries, and to remove WTO illegalization of their objectives.
		November 1999: it was unveiled on MyCNN that the U.S. government has given a higher priority to the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba than the war on illegal drugs.
		Later, a letter dated Nov. 29, 1999 [indicating the decision was made prior to the violent protests] and distributed Dec. 1, 1999 indicated the cancellation was based on a credible leak from the U.S. State Department.
	www.zaimoni.com /WTO_1999.htm (3073 words)

	WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 was a meeting of the World Trade Organization, convened in Seattle, Washington, USA over the course of three days, beginning November 30, 1999.
		Intended as the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations that would have been called "The Seattle Round", the negotiations were overshadowed by large street protests outside the venues where the conference was taking place.
		Because of the disruptions in the Seattle rounds, the negotiations were not formally begun until the next meeting which was held at Doha, Qatar, a locale easier to control and police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WTO_Meeting_of_1999 (287 words)

	Debating the WTO: Should the WTO be Abolished?
		At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments.
		The WTO is often promoted as a "rules-based" trading frame work that protects the weaker and poorer countries from unilateral actions by the stronger states.
		The WTO as the institution of the poor is a new mythology being spun, not to protect the poor, but to protect the WTO and TNCs, and hence perpetuate the trade rules which are the ultimate assault on the survival of the poor.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/ecology/debate.htm (3409 words)

	It's all about jobs: WTO meetings - Dec. 1, 1999
		The highly publicized WTO meetings, which officially kicked off Tuesday, have turned into a political and media spectacle both inside and outside the Seattle Convention Center and various theaters and hotels where discussions are being held.
		WTO director general Mike Moore is seeking to break the impasse between the U.S. and the EU over agriculture subsidies, the most important issue at the meeting.
		The new WTO round should be about "jobs and prosperity around the world,” Clinton told a gathering of Washington State farmers at his first public appearance at the WTO meetings.
	money.cnn.com /1999/12/01/economy/wto_meetings (867 words)

	USIS, Economic Perspectives, May 1999 - Agriculture: The United States and the 1999 WTO Ministerial Meeting, Uruguay ...
		All WTO member countries are meeting their commitments to reduce these outlays, and most countries reduced this type of support by more than the required amount.
		The outstanding question for the WTO is whether members whose practices have been successfully challenged under the new dispute settlement procedures will live up to their obligations.
		Acceding countries benefit from WTO membership through privileged trade status with WTO members but may incur adjustment costs in reforming their trade policies and reducing tariffs to meet WTO requirements.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/ites/0599/ijee/ag-wto.htm (1101 words)

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