Roquefort cheese was among a number of European Union products to be hit with new US tariffs in retaliation for an EU ban on US hormone-treated beef, a move that escalated a longstanding trade row.
agriculture - WTO US triples import duty on French Roquefort Friday 16 January 2009 The French government attacked a US decision to triple import duties on its world-famous Roquefort cheese. The measure follows a long-running dispute with the ... IN CAMBODIA , THE THAI CHINESE AND OTHER CHINESE HAVE INTRODUCED -PESTICIDE IN THE FOOD IN CAMBODIA -HORMONE IN THE FISH POND AND BEEF,PORK, -ALSO PESTICIDE IN DRINK -DRUG CONSUMPTION -GAMBLING, SEX INDUSTRY,PROSTITUTION, A DN DRINKING ALCOHOL THE THAI CHINESE AND OTHER CHINESE ARE FREE FROM TAXES AND STEALING CAMBODIA AT WILL THEY ARE THE NEW COLONILALIST IN TOWN TODAY AND AT THE SAME TIME THE NEW THIEVES AND PIRATES. A brief history: Feb. 28, 1955 In a brief visit to Phnom Penh, State Secy. Dulles asks that the US be given responsibility for training the Cambodian army in exchange for US military aid. March 2, 1955King Sihanouk abdicates in favor of his father, Prince Norodom Suramarit, in order to freely participate in the political arena. April 17-24, 1955 Afro-Asian Bandung Conference. Sihanouk met Chou Enlai and Pham Van Dong respectively Foreign Minister of China and North Vietnam.Both are communists. Converted , Sihanouk went to meet Mao Tse Toung in Beijing in 1956. (Feb. 1956 Prince Sihanouk makes his first visit to the People’s Republic of China - Communist China. and started to introduce socilaism into Cambodia with this (March 1956 Prince Sihanouk begins program of "Khmer Socialism =sangkoum reast niyum ) Sihanouk has paid dearly with this evil association because of this:Making friends with the Chinese communists, former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk is obliged to respect the Chinese communist conditions:1.To help and support the Vietnamese communists in the war with the American .2. To abandon the Khmer culture of Honesty.3. King Sihanouk must adopt the Anti America stand.From 1956-2008 King Sihanouk became a Chinese communist good friend..But what does Cambodia benefit from this evil Chinese relationship, while on November 28 ,2008 the date that King Sihanouk was off to Beijin, Cambodia remains occupied by Vietnam , a UN member country against 10 UN resolutions? When he seeks refuge in Biejin in March 1970, Chou Enlai suggested to create FUNK/GRUNK to war with the American troops in Indochina using the NVN/VC troops to kill the Cambodian people from 1970-1975. In March 1970 Chou Enlai pushed Sihanouk to war with the American, while in October 1970 , Mao Tse Toung /Choue Enlai in secret meeting worked behind Sihanouk back and the North Vietnamese Pham Van Dong to meed Edgar Snow or the American On Oct. 1, 1970, Chairman Mao Zedong invites American writer Edgar Snow to the National Day celebration on the Tian'anmen rostrum, sending a signal to the United States that China is willing to improve relations with the United States. On Dec. 18, Mao Zedong asked Snow to pass the message to Washington that President Richard Nixon would be welcome to Beijing for talks. (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn) On Oct. 1, 1970, Chairman Mao Zedong invites American writer Edgar Snow to the National Day celebration on the Tian'anmen rostrum, sending a signal to the United States that China is willing to improve relations with the United States. On Dec. 18, Mao Zedong asked Snow to pass the message to Washington that President Richard Nixon would be welcome to Beijing for talks. (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn) BY 1971 CHOU ENLAI HAD A SECRET MEETING WITH DR KISSINGER BEHIND THE BACK OF SIHANOUK AND PHAM VAN DONG ? SIHANOUK REMAINS TRAPPED WITH THE ANTI AMERICAN STAND WHILE CHOU ENLAI/MAO TSE TOUNG SEEK RELATIONS WITH AMERICA In April 1971, the U.S. national team of table tennis at the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in Japan expressed to the Chinese national team that it hoped to visit China. On April 6,the Chinese Table Tennis Association issued an invitation to the U.S. table tennis team. On April 14, Premier Zhou Enlai met with all the members of the U.S. table tennis delegation. Zhou said: "By visiting our country you have opened the gate for the exchanges between the people of the two nations. We believe that a friendly exchange will win approval and support from both the Chinese and American peoples." (Photo: fmprc.gov.cn)Photo Gallery>>> Bury ================================================================= AFP - French government and food industry officials on Thursday denounced a US decision to triple import duties on Roquefort cheese, warning that it could spell the end of Roquefort exports to the US market. "Incomprehensible and inadmissible" fumed Anne-Marie Idrac, secretary of state for state for foreign trade. "I am very shocked that one of the last moves by the outgoing Bush administration is this increase in customs duties." Roquefort cheese was among a number of European Union products to be hit with new US tariffs in retaliation for an EU ban on US hormone-treated beef, a move that escalated a longstanding trade row. Under the measure France's renowned soft blue cheese, made from ewes' milk, will have its duties raised to 300 percent from 100 percent, effective March 23. The office of the US Trade Representative updated its list of punitive duties, adding some products while deleting others. The USTR said the decision was taken under a 1998 World Trade Organization ruling that found that the EU ban on US beef administered certain growth-promoting hormones, begun in 1988, was not supported by science and was thus inconsistent with WTO rules. That ruling allowed Washington to impose trade sanctions on the European Union. But the EU argued in 2003 that it did in fact have scientific grounds for the ban, thus making the restriction valid under trade rules. That argument however was rejected by the United States, which maintained its sanctions. "We had already been taxed at 100 percent for nine years," said Robert Glandieres of the French association of Roquefort producers. "Now, with 300 percent, sales of Roquefort to the United States will be finished." Glandieres said Roquefort exports to the United States come to about 400 tonnes a year, or two percent of total output. Veteran ecology activist Jose Bove denounced the US move against Roquefort as "perfectly scandalous." "The United States is hoping that producers will put pressure on Europe in order to protect their (US) market. "The issue is clear -- at no time will producers put pressure on Europe to open its borders to hormone-treated beef." Militants from the SPLB milk producers' group led by Bove damaged a construction site for a future McDonald's restaurant in Millau, southern France in response to earlier US measures against Roquefort in August 1999. Laurent Reversat told AFP Thursday that the group was now considering "something in common" with other members of the Roquefort industry to protest the latest US move. But he did not suggest that an action similar to that against McDonalds in 1999 would be carried out. Beatrice Weirich of the regional federation of sheep raisers, FNSEA, said it was "frustrating that once again we are the ones who must suffer these reprisal measures by the United States." "It was costing us dearly to maintain Roquefort (in the United States) ... Duties that go to 300 percent in fact exclude us from the US market. "Roquefort is a symbol of France and we are paying for its stature." agriculture - WTO From: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]: 2. RE: World Bank and Johanne Vinther Axelsen, 55Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:58:02 -0800 Thursday, January 15, 2009 Danish diplomat taken aback by sentence? Johanne Vinther Axelsen, 55, who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Cambodia for trying to send codeine pills out of the country. A 15-year sentence for a Danish woman is out of all proportion according to Denmark's leading diplomat in Cambodia. First, we must understand the behavior and character of a VietnameseVIETNAMESE CHARACTER as described in this book : " THIEF, LIAR : BOOK " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ..... Thursday, January 15, 2009Politiken.dk (Denmark)Denmark's leading diplomat in Cambodia says he has been taken aback by the 15-year sentence handed down to 55-year-old Johanne Vinther Axelsen, who has been found guilty of trying to send 10,761 codeine pills out of the country."We simply don't understand the sentence and we don't yet know what the sentence is based on," Tom Barthel Hansen, Head of the Danish Representation Office in Pnom Penh tells politiken.dk.His office had envisaged a maximum penalty of between two and five years. "15 years in prison is out of all proportion," Hansen says.CodeineJohanne Vinther Axelsen was arrested at a post office in Cambodia last year as she attempted to mail a large number of codeine pills to the United States and Canada for her son, who lives in Cambodia."They became suspicious at the post office and she was arrested. It may be the number of pills involved that has given rise to the heavy sentence," says Tom Barthel Hansen.Nonetheless he remains puzzled, as codeine pills are freely available at Cambodian pharmacies without a prescription. Subject: RE: World Bank and Other Development Partners Help Cambodia to ImproveDate: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:35:28 -0800 Dear Mr ssamoeun,Thank you for your information.Would you be kind to submit my remark to the attention of the Bank please.This report .AKP, Phnom Penh, January 14, 2009 Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister H.E Sok An, cabinet minister meets with Mrs. Cannette Dixon, newly appointed director of World Bank to Southeast Asia, in which the guest is seeking more understanding on the perspective of the royal government of Cambodia so as to closely cooperate and smoothly fulfill the works between both sides. H.E Sok An welcomed the World Bank's new projects to assist the kingdom's agricultural and transportation fields. I wish to remind you that the World Bank must be aware of these facts: Remember this song " " "Corruption, corruption, corruption". said World Bank Président James Wolfensohn to Cham Prasidh. As of today there is no ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW adopted yet and the World Bank is going to throw the money to the thieves ? Do you recall? Jan. 11, 1979 The UN Security Council agreed, over the objections of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, to let Prince Norodom Sihanouk present a demand for the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. US president Reagan said :America calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence . President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." First, we must understand the behavior and character of a VietnameseVIETNAMESE CHARACTER as described in this book : " THIEF, LIAR : BOOK " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ..... CONSEQUENCES :For over 30 years of Vietnam occupation look to the Cambodian youth pushed to get drug from the Chinese drug dealers like these ?======================In Phnom Penh under the Vietnamese invader police administration with the label "Cambodian" police. Does the World Bank realize that ? In 2008 Vietnam pledges to abide by UN charter ?THEN ALL VIETNAMESE INVADERS AND ILLEGAL VIET SETTLERS MUST COMPLY TO THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS AND GO HOME. Would you be kind to submit my remark to the Bank . Thank you BURY > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: World Bank and Other Development Partners Help Cambodia to Improve> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:05:13 -0500> > Dear All,> > Today the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Bank signed US$84.7> million grant for three development projects aim to improve people's lives and> reduce poverty in Cambodia. US$20 million for Demand for Good Governance> Project, US$ 52.1 million for Second Health Sector Support Project and US$12.6> million for trade facilitation. Please find two press releases attach below for> these three grant agreements. Please find the press release as below.> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE> > Contacts: In Phnom Penh: Bou Saroeun (855) 12-217-301> [email protected]> > > World Bank and Other Development Partners Help Cambodia to Improve Trade> Facilitation> > PHNOM PENH, 14, 2009 – The Royal Government of Cambodia will receive a $12.6> million grant from three donors to support a new development program, aimed at> reducing poverty by removing trade barriers and improving the standard of> Cambodian exports.> > The Cambodia Trade Development Support Program, or TDSP, is designed to> strengthen the Government’s efficiency in formulating and implementing> effective trade policies; in meeting its obligations to the World Trade> Organization, including food safety standard; and in improving access by> Cambodian firms to European markets, among other objectives.> > “In the context of the global financial turmoil and weakening trade flows,> these efforts are all the more critical,” said Annette Dixon, the new Cambodia> Country Director of the World Bank, which will administer the grant.> > “At the World Bank, we believe that trade plays an important role in the fight> against poverty. It creates the potential for higher economic growth and> employment. By helping the Government to increase trade and employment in> trading sectors, all development partners contributing to this program will> help Cambodians enjoy better lives.”> > Funding for this program comes from the Cambodia Trade Development Trust Fund> and is supported by the European Commission, the Danish International Aid> Agency (Danida) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization> (UNIDO) with amount of €7.1 million, DKK33 million and €0.2 million,> respectively. The World Bank will help provide technical advice, and monitor as> well as evaluate the impacts of this program on behalf of all donors.> > International trade, open trade policies, and being located in the very dynamic> sub-region of Southeast Asia have all contributed significantly to Cambodia’s> rapid growth of the last decade. Exports of garments and tourism have been key> drivers of economic growth in this country.> > Cambodia, admitted to the WTO in 2004, has been facing strong competition in> the garment sector from a number of other countries. In addition, the lack of> diversification in both exports and export markets makes the Cambodian economy> vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown.> > As part of its ongoing efforts to address challenges in the export sector, the> Cambodian Government completed in 2007 the Diagnostic Trade Integration> Strategy. The DTIS examined trade-related policies and identified measures to> help Cambodia meet the WTO obligations, including legal reforms and improvement> of the standard of Cambodian food exports.> > At the moment, the Government is also working with development partners to> develop the Trade sector-wide approach to support the implementation of policy> recommendations under the DTIS. Called Trade SWAp in short, this approach will> enable all development partners in Cambodia to direct funding to a variety of> different activities – all working toward the goals outlined by the DTIS.> > This, combined with the global economic slowdown, makes the TDSP a very timely> program that fully supports Cambodia’s economic growth strategy, said H.E. Keat> Chhon, the Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance.> > “The objectives of the Project are to improve the developmental impact of donor> advice and, significantly, to increase Government’s own ownership of the> formulation and implementation of trade policy,” he said during the> grant-signing ceremony in Phnom Penh.> > Rafael Dochao Moreno, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the European Commission> Delegation in Cambodia said: “More than any other region in the world, the> European Union is aware of the benefits of trade for economic development.” He> added: “The European Union is the largest provider of trade-related> development assistance around the world. And as the biggest market for exports> from developing countries, we provide duty-free access to exports from LDCs> (less Development Countries) like Cambodia under the preferential trading> system 'Everything But Arms' (EBA). Financing this work in Cambodia therefore> falls squarely within the European Commission's support strategy for Cambodia.”> > *** NO LONGER INTERESTED IN RECEIVING THESE UPDATES? ***> > Please reply to this message with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line to be> removed from this distribution list.> > > Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. Check it out.</html_________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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