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"In Seoul we saw the blatant contrast between the official summit of the Heads of State and Government and the citizens’ and popular movements in which I took part. The first is aimed at speeding up the neo-liberal reforms, against which the second were protesting. The unions and the social movements reject the dictatorship of the “chaebol”, the large, traditional industrial conglomerates, but that does not mean they want this to be replaced by the dictatorship of the IMF or the WTO. Nor, indeed, by a new – economic – colonisation of their country, at a time when everyone is wondering which western firms will be buying out the South Korean industries that are in trouble.
The alternative forum also encouraged interparliamentary contacts, punctuated by a meeting at the South Korean National Assembly on 18 October. What it found is beyond dispute: the elected assemblies have been kept out of the ASEM process, even though businessmen were systematically involved. It is urgently necessary to breathe new life into the interparliamentary dialogue (ASEP) between Europe in the west and Asia in the east.
The preparation of ASEM IV must be used as an opportunity to set out our requirements for democracy, on the one hand, by ensuring that the elected assembles and civil society are kept informed and able to intervene – which involves, in particular, the establishment of a social forum – and, on the other hand, by adhering fully to social, environmental and human rights."@en1
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