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From: Dharmendra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/9/23
Subject: [IndiaFDIWatch] Pl. endorse the letter
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All,
Greetings from India FDI Watch
The Government of India is negotiating a far reaching Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) with the European Union. Since June 2007, when the talks began, the
GoI has kept the Indian Parliament, state legislatures and key
constituencies such as trade unions and agriculture groups in the dark.
This letter is to bring to your urgent attention to the statement "*IMMEDIATELY
HALT EU-INDIA FTA NEGOTIATIONS*" issued during a strategy meeting, on the EU
India FTA, organised by trade unions, people's movements and civil society
organisations on 21st September at New Delhi .
This statement is pasted below with this letter.
In the meeting trade unionists and participants expressed deep concern over
the secrecy maintained by the government given the potential devastating
impacts of this FTA on labour and livelihood rights of people in India .
Participants unanimously agreed that a call be issued to "*IMMEDIATELY HALT
EU-INDIA FTA NEGOTIATIONS*" on the occasion of upcoming EU-India summit
scheduled to be held in Paris from September 29-30. This statement will be
submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and
the EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and the media.
If you are in agreement with the contents of the letter, please reply with
your name and organisational affiliation. Please consider that this is a
time sensitive request and we *need your endorsements by September 26* at
the latest. We also request you to send it to your networks
(The Letter)
*IMMEDIATELY HALT EU-INDIA FTA NEGOTIATIONS *
*Statement of Concern from India*
*New Delhi**, 21 September 2008*
* *
We, belonging to trade unions, people's movements and civil society
organisations express our opposition to the lack of transparency, public
debate and democratic process of the ongoing negotiations of the European
Union – India Free Trade Agreement (EU-India FTA). We are deeply concerned
that a free trade framework will have adverse socio-economic and
environmental impacts. As delegations gather for the EU-India Summit in
Paris on September 29-30, 2008, we call for a halt of EU-India FTA
negotiations.
Since the launch of the EU's corporate driven Global Europe strategy and the
subsequent commencement of the negotiations in June 2007, five rounds of
formal talks have occurred without any public access to the Indian
government position, commissioned studies and negotiating texts. Even the
Indian Parliament, state governments and legislatures have been kept in the
dark.
The Indian Commerce Ministry's consultations have been limited to large
corporate and commercial interests within India and have completely
side-stepped those who are likely to be adversely affected by a legally
binding treaty.
*WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE HALT OF EU-INDIA FTA NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL:*
* *
- *All existing negotiating positions, draft proposals and government
commissioned studies are made public *
- *All current proposals are debated and discussed in parliament and
public fora *
- *The federal process of consultation with the state governments is
completed and a consensus is reached*
- *Consultations are conducted with key constituents such as trade
unions, farmers, women, dalit, adivasi and other peoples organizations,
small and medium enterprises, cooperatives and hawkers*
- *A white paper is released and discussed in parliament on the
socio-economic and ecological impacts of all aspects of the EU-India FTA,
especially addressing social inequality and discrimination *
*Endorsed by: *
* *
1
R.A Mital
Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
2
Ashim Roy
New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI)
3
R k Sharma
All India United Trade Union Congress (AIUTUC)
4
Hare Krishna Debnath
National forum for Fish workers
5
Ashok Choudhry
National Forum for Forest People and Forest workers (NFFPFW)
6
J John
Centre for Education and Communication (CEC)
7
Smitu Kothari
Intercultural Resources (ICR)
8
Benny Kuruvilla
Focus on the Global South
9
Umi Daniel
Action Aid
10
Dharmendra Kumar
India FDI Watch
11
Shaktiman Ghosh
National Hawkers Federation
12
Bhaskar Goswami
Forum for Biotechnology and food Security
13
Willy vda costa
INSAF
15
Vidya Rangan
Equations
16
K M Gopa Kumar
TWN
17
Tanveer
National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
18
A Aloysius
SAVE
19
Vijay Prakash Jain
Bharatiya Udhyog Vyapar Mandal
20
Jaison T Thomas
Dan Church Aid
21
Shalini Yog
Heinrich Bol Foundation
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