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The joint resolution on the third Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 3) discusses the forthcoming meeting of the ASEM 2000 People's Forum in Seoul. It endorses the establishment of a social forum and the strengthening of “civil society dialogue”. It also, however, sets itself the major objective of initiating a round of global negotiations within the WTO seeking to liberalise trade ever increasingly and, further, to reinforce “the WTO's rules-based system”.
This forced, unfair liberalisation of trade and increase in the powers of the WTO are precisely what the social movements, the trade unions, associations and NGOs within the People’s Forum are protesting against!
Since, to date, ASEM has continued to be, in the main, an economic rather than social or political process, the ‘hard core’ of the joint resolution is this alignment with the neoliberal commercial order incarnated by the WTO. It is therefore easy to understand the support it has for the broad guidelines of the Commission’s approach. Yet for those of us who have an ear tuned to the demands of the people, “social dialogue” must emphatically not take place “in this context” when that means the context of the WTO rules, as the resolution states.
We therefore have no choice but to vote against the joint resolution."@en1
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