Subject: MAI in Jeopardy
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997
From: Michael Eisenscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Tom Condit
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
For Immediate Release October 23, 1997
For More Information: Michael Dolan (USA) 202-546-4996 (x322)
Media Advisory
Multilateral Agreement on Investment in Jeopardy
Behind schedule, OECD convenes 11th Hour
"Consultation" with International NGO Community
Nader group dispatches organizers to oppose stealth treaty
WHAT: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is a new investment
pact currently being negotiated at the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD), based in Paris. Renato Ruggerio, World Trade
Organization Director General, has called the MAI "the constitution of a
single global economy." Though negotiations began in 1995 -- and the MAI is
now 95% complete -- this is the first time negotiators have allowed
representatives from civil society to contribute their perspectives on the
controversial corporate charter contained in the MAI.
WHO: Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is a nonprofit citizen
research, lobbying and litigation organization based in Washington, DC. The
Global Trade Watch team works to promote the needs and interests of citizens
in international trade agreements in every public forum: Congress, the
courts, government agencies, international tribunals and the news media. In
addition, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch produces and distributes
extensive materials on how international trade agreements affect food,
health and safety, jobs and wages, the environment and the democratic
process. Global Trade Watch will be represented in Paris by Field Director
Michael Dolan and Organizer Chantell Taylor.
WHERE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
14, passage Dubail (1st Floor), Paris Metro stop:
Entrance across from 55, Rue des Vinaigriers Strasbourg-St-Denis
WHEN: Tuesday, October 28, 11:00 AM
WHY: Throughout Monday, October 27th, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
will join over forty other NGO for a so-called "consultation" at the
OECD. We intend to present a list of demands to the MAI negotiators at the
OECD; if these demands are rejected, Public Citizen and other NGO's will
renounce the "consultation" process and begin to work together to defeat the
MAI in our home countries -- to ensure that the treaty is never ratified nor
its provisions codified.
Best Regards,
David Briars
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