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"Despite containing various positive points, for example the need for greater coordination of activities between the WTO, ILO, UNEP, UNDP, WHO and UNCTAD, the report seeks to play down international trade liberalisation, which it does not criticise at all.
The report’s softly-softly approach is only aimed at neutralising criticism and disguising the roles of those who, like the Social Democrats, are trying to find a way out of the crisis faced by the capitalist system.
It reaffirms its support, albeit it in moderate terms, for the liberalisation of world trade, while camouflaging its consequences. The liberalisation of international trade has promoted the opening of markets between countries with enormous disparities in their levels of economic development, to the delight and profit of the big financial and economic groups, namely the EU.
The report tries hard to hide its approval of the liberalisation of trade, and its role in the offensive led by neoliberal capitalist globalisation, which it claims will ensure the economic development and progress of peoples.
Nothing could be further from the truth. What we have seen and continue to see is an increase in inequalities in the world, a trend that will become greater if current neoliberal policies continue. The increase in the price of food illustrates this.
I therefore voted against the report."@en1
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