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We are voting against the joint resolution on the forthcoming WTO conference. This resolution again adopts positions that have traditionally been advocated by the European Commission for extending the scope of negotiations in the WTO. On what are known as the Singapore issues, it consequently recommends that negotiations should be officially opened on competition, investments, trade facilitation and public procurement. This would give the WTO further powers.
This resolution also considers that it would be possible to ensure the satisfactory reform of world governance by establishing a more balanced and closer relationship between the WTO and other international organisations. This misses the point of what the WTO is. This organisation was founded with the aim of encouraging trade liberalisation. It was designed to ensure that the imperialist countries would dominate it. It imposes itself like an antidemocratic force and its decisions, which are taken without any form of popular scrutiny, have to be transposed into national or Community legislation. The WTO is a war machine in the service of the financial powers. Adjusting the balance of its relationships is not enough to solve a problem of this nature. A democratic reform of international trade will take place despite the WTO, not through it."@en1
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