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"Mr President, I am glad to hear that the Spanish Presidency assures us that the Council will play a leadership role at Johannesburg. However, if it is going to, then it will have to get its act together very fast.
The Commissioner complains that the G-77 is insisting on the Global Solidarity Pact. But what they wanted was essentially the money that was promised to them ten years ago, which was supposed to pay for the implementation of the Rio agreements agreed then. No wonder they have no faith in the North, which has not produced that money yet.
On trade, the Commissioner says that if Johannesburg focuses on trade issues we will lose the focus on sustainable development. The point is that you cannot separate trade and sustainable development. If people are to have secure access to water, we cannot pressure them into privatising their water supplies under the GATS agreement. If people are to have secure access to food, we cannot keep dumping agricultural products on their markets. It seems that it was agricultural subsidies in the EU that yet again broke one of the deals on the table. There is extraordinary hypocrisy in demanding subsidy reduction and neo-liberal economic policies in the South while practising old-fashioned northern protectionism in the North."@en1
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