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Petition 2003

Nearly 2,000 signatures were collected across the country

The Petition reads –

The Doha round of trade negotiations is supposed to focus on the development of the poorer countries.  We applaud your initiatives to help the least developed countries under ‘Everything but Arms’ and to provide access to patented medicines under TRIPS.  However the existing unjust and biased trade rules cost the poorest countries hundreds of billions of dollars worth of lost opportunities, condemning billions of people to continued poverty.  We call on you to ensure that:-

bulletNo new issues until existing injustices have been resolved.
bulletEliminate all Export Subsidies by developed countries.
bulletHonour existing commitments to reduce & eliminate the tariffs, quotas and agricultural subsidies, which trap billions in poverty.

The petition was circulated at events around the Trade Justice Movement’s mass lobby of MPs on July 27/28th.

 

19 Juni 2006