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The rapporteur cannot be naïve enough to think that the terrible inequalities in world trade are due to the fact that most member countries of the WTO “are marginalised because of non-inclusive working methods or because they are not, or not effectively, represented in Geneva” or even due “to practices inherited from the GATT”.
Economic relations between countries, and trade relations in particular, obey only one law – the law of the strongest – and certainly do not involve the type of “democracy” that the rapporteur would like to see. The imperialist countries impose their law on third world countries and the United States impose their own, even on second-ranking imperialist powers. Clearly, giving the poorest countries a few extra posts within the WTO or in any other international body is not going to change the balance of power.
The report’s real motives are to be found in the fact that international trade, whose laws resemble the law of the jungle, is giving rise to protest and demonstrations. Although it does not have the power to change the substance of the matter, the European Parliament is invited to put a democratic spin on a type of relationship that is poles apart from a relationship of equality and democracy.
We have not, of course, given our support to this playacting and have voted against the report."@en1
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