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WTO is for Enriching the West, Says Kituyi
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The Nation (Nairobi)
April 28, 2005
Posted to the web April 28, 2005Bernard Namunane
NairobiThe World Trade Organisation was imperialistic and meant to enrich developed nations, a minister said in Parliament.
The trade body would do nothing to reduce poverty in the country, Trade and Industry minister Mukhisa Kituyi said, putting WTO in the same league as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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"The WTO is not a development vehicle to deal with poverty. It is a tool of imperialism, which has overtaken IMF," he said.
Dr Kituyi was giving a statement of the status of the Doha Round of Negotiations requested by Kitutu Chache MP Jimmy Angwenyi (Ford-P).
Developing countries should slow the effects of globalisation of trade, which impacts negatively on fragile economies, he said.
He challenged MPs to seek ways of blocking the effects of world trade, which fights to open up third world markets and restrict entry into western markets.
"The only way is to form powerful lobbies to ameliorate effects of trade globalisation," he said.
Responding to concerns by MPs Angwenyi, Abdul Bahari (Isiolo South, Kanu) and Peter Munya (Tigania East, Safina) on WTO's non-reciprocity towards less developed nations, Dr Kituyi said he had put in place a G90 group, which was fighting to slow the components of trade globalisation.
The G90 group, he said, had warded off moves by rich nations to have developing nations reduce tariffs on their goods and also reduce restrictions on exports from the Third World.
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TradeThe move was spearheaded by United States at the Doha round table negotiations on core areas of agriculture, goods, services, rules including trade facilitation and development.
The US proposed that WTO members agree on a specific date for elimination of agricultural tariffs and trade-distorting domestic support. It suggested elimination of all tariffs on consumer and industrial goods by 2015.
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