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<td>Retroceden algunas ECAs: European ECAs backing out of Ilisu
Dam Project in Turkey]</td>
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<td>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:27:00 +0200</td>
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<td>Monica - ODG <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:monica.vargas@odg.cat"><monica.vargas@odg.cat></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:deuda-2005@llistes.moviments.net">deuda-2005@llistes.moviments.net</a></td>
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Compas,<br>
Les comparto una noticia buena. Es una victoria de la Campańa sobre
Agencias de Crédito a la Exportación (ECAs como nuestra CESCE), a nivel
de Suiza, Austria y Alemania. Concretamente, como pueden ver en el
comunicado de prensa de abajo, un trabajo activista fuerte ha logrado
que esas ECAs retiren su apoyo a una megarepresa en Turquia (Ilisu).<br>
Abrazo<br>
Mónica<br>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Germany</font></span></b></st1:country-region><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"
lang="EN-GB">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Switzerland</st1:country-region>
backing out of Ilisu Dam Project in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></b>
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Stop
Ilisu Campaign welcomes this unprecedented step</span></b><span
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p><span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span></font><b>(Berlin,
Vienna, Zurich – June 22, 2009) Germany, Austria and Switzerland will
withdraw their export credit guarantees for the highly controversial
Ilisu dam project in Turkey by July 6th, as the German daily
Frankfurter Rundschau Online reported on Friday. This is an
unprecedented step in the history of export finance. Environmental and
human rights organisations had repeatedly pointed out that Turkey
violated conditions tied to the guarantees and the environmental,
social, cultural and geopolitical problems remained unsolved. </b><font
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span></font><span style="" lang="EN-GB">“We
greatly welcome that the European governments finally take
international standards for this project seriously”, comments Heike
Drillisch from the German Ilisu Campaign CounterCurrent. “This is a
great step forward for the protection of human rights, the environment
and cultural heritage.”
<p>CounterCurrent and the Swiss organisation Berne Declaration had only
recently been to the Ilisu region on the Tigris river to analyse if
Turkey was fulfilling the European conditions. „Our research showed
that there is still no solution for the 60,000 people losing their
means of existence nor for the salvage of the invaluable cultural
heritage doomed by flooding“, declares Berne Declaration’s Christine
Eberlein. “On the contrary, Turkey has continued to expropriate farmers
even during the ultimatum.” </p>
<p>Due to repeated violations of the conditions by the Turkish
authorities, the governments of Germany, Austria and Switzerland had
put the contracts on hold for 180 days at the end of 2008. The deadline
to decide on the final withdrawal ends on July 6th, but the German
government obviously already made up its mind. As the three countries
decide unanimously, this means that Austria and Switzerland will also
back out. </p>
<p>The withdrawal is a huge victory for environmentalists and human
rights advocates who have campaigned for years for the stop of the mega
dam. It increases the likelihood that project will be cancelled
completely, as Turkey now lacks 450 m Euro and technical know how. The
political impacts of the withdrawal weigh even stronger: for the first
time export credit contracts are cancelled on grounds of humanitarian,
cultural and environmental concerns. The reputation of the project thus
equals to zero. Therefore it will be difficult for Turkey to find new
sponsors, as the European banks providing finance for the project are
expected to also withdraw. </p>
<p>"This is an important stage win for us. We will now increase our
efforts to have the project revoked in Turkey as well", says Ulrich
Eichelmann from the Stop Ilisu Campaign in Austria. Prominent artists
like nobel prize writer Orhan Pamuk and pop singer Tarkan have already
embarked the campaign to stop the Ilisu dam and make the antique town
of Hasankeyf and the surrounding Tigris river a UNESCO World Heritage
Site.</p>
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<u>Contacts:</u><br>
Heike Drillisch (CounterCurrent - Ilisu Campaign
Germany), <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:heike.drillisch@gegenstroemung.org">heike.drillisch@gegenstroemung.org</a>,
+49 177 345 2611<br>
Christine Eberlein (Berne Declaration), <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ceberlein@evb.ch">ceberlein@evb.ch</a>,
+41 794 263
056<br>
Ulrich Eichelmann (ECA Watch Österreich), <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ulrich.eichelmann@eca-watch.at">ulrich.eichelmann@eca-watch.at</a>,
0043 676 662 1512
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GegenStrömung - Ilisu-Kampagne Deutschland<br>
CounterCurrent - Ilisu Campaign Germany<br>
Heike Drillisch<br>
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href="mailto:heike.drillisch@gegenstroemung.org">heike.drillisch@gegenstroemung.org</a>,
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