[Deuda-QdQ] Fotos de la marcha contra la OMC en Bali

Mar Dic 3 11:49:22 CET 2013

Queridas/os compañeras/os:

esta mañana se realizó en Bali (Indonesia) una manifestación contra la
conferencia ministerial de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) y
también acciones dentro del recinto de la cumbre oficial.

Aquí tenéis fotos de la marcha organizada por la coalición de movimientos
sociales Gerak Lawan:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8448347@N03/sets/72157638310591643/

Abajo también dos noticias sobre las movilizaciones.

Más noticias en Twitter: #EndWTO y en la web: http://smaa.asia

Un abrazo, Tom

Anti-WTO activists make
their move

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/12/03/anti-wto-activists-make-their-move.html

Large contingents of uniformed and plainclothes police officers were sent
to guard foreign consulates and strategic facilities in Denpasar on
Monday.

Their deployment was due to anti WTO (World Trade Organization) activists
keeping their promise to make their dissenting voices heard through
rallies and discussions throughout the ninth WTO Ministerial Meeting
slated to be held on Dec. 3-6 in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Early in the morning, activists from Gerak Lawan voiced their opposition
against the global trade organization by cycling around Puputan Margarana,
a vast field that lies in the heart of the administrative district in
Renon. They wore white headbands emblazoned with “#EndWTO”.

Hasan Harry Sandy Ame from the national secretariat of the Youth
Solidarity Festival said that three policy packages, known as the Bali
Package, that would be discussed in the ministerial meeting would endanger
the fate of Indonesian people.

“None of the WTO agreements will benefit Indonesian people. It will only
marginalize us, all communities, including farmers, women, professionals
and even civil servants,” Harry said.

“All of the packages are only the US’ attempt to control international
trade. Our people will only become victims of all those policies,” he
declared.

As many as 200 uniformed police officers equipped with riot gear were
deployed to protect the consulate building. They formed a human barricade
that separated the protesters from the consulate’s main gate.

“The deployment of such a large number of officers is important in our
effort to prevent the rally from escalating into something negative,”
Denpasar Police deputy chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Gusti Kade Budhi Harryarsana
said, as quoted by Metrobali.com.

He said that another contingent of riot police had also been deployed to
the Australian consulate on Jl. Tantular in Renon.

Meanwhile, numerous NGOs — under the Gerak Lawan and the Social Movements
for an Alternative Asia alliance — held a public discussion at the Yuwana
Mandala sports hall in Denpasar on Monday, during which they called for
the dissolution of the WTO.

Pablo Solon, the executive director of Thailand-based Focus on the Global
South, said that the organization had mainly benefited big transnational
companies in developed countries.

“The philosophy behind it [the WTO’s establishment] was to promote trade,
economic growth and poverty reduction. Now it has been 18 years and we see
that this has not happened,” Solon, who once served as Bolivia’s
ambassador to the United Nations, said on the sidelines of the discussion.

Muhammad Ikhwan of the Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) said that his
organization had stopped believing that trade talks under the WTO would
actually bring about changes.

He forecast that this year’s ministerial meeting would be no different to
previous ones and would end in an impasse.

Similar protests were also held by students and activists from a number of
NGOs in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

“The WTO conference will only strengthen the control of imperialists,
especially the United States, over Third World nations, including
Indonesia. Only powerful countries will gain profits, while poor,
developing countries will suffer,” said Muhlis, coordinator of the rally.

“All the agreements made by the Indonesian government and imperialist
countries have led to many foreign investors investing their money in the
country and snatching away people’s land. Many Indonesians have lost their
land, while the land was their only source of income,” he added.

He also highlighted the education sector, which has been dominated by
capitalist investors.

The protesters urged the Indonesian government to conduct a reform of the
agricultural and industrial sectors in a bid to improve people’s welfare.

As well as staging a rally, the protesters also held a theatrical
performance, in which they portrayed what they described was the people’s
misery caused by liberalism and imperialism.

LDCs unite to push for trade privileges at WTO meeting

http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/ldcs-unite-to-push-for-trade-privileges-at-wto-meeting/

People protest the World Trade Organisation conference in front of the US
consulate in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali yesterday. The
ministerial conference starts today. Photo: AFP

All 49 least-developed countries (LDCs) yesterday agreed to place
Bangladesh’s four demands that would enhance its trade privileges at the
ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The four demands include relaxation of rules of origin, duty-free and
quota-free (DFQF) access and waiver for export of services, according to
Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed, who is leading the Bangladeshi
delegation.
“We have great news from the ministerial conference. Earlier, the LDC
members were divided in the four areas, but now there is a consensus,” he
said yesterday after a meeting with the other LDCs ahead of the
conference.
If the member countries agree to the four demands at the ministerial
conference, it will greatly help Bangladesh, while citing the zero-duty
entry of garment products, the country’s main export item, to the US, the
country’s single largest export destination, as an example of the
benefits.
At present, the country pays 15.3 percent duty on garment export to the
US, although duty benefit was promised in the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial
Conference in 2005.
As a result, Bangladeshi garment exporters paid $746 million as duty to
the US customs in 2012 for exporting a little above $5 billion worth of
garment products.
The ninth biennial ministerial conference, the highest meeting of WTO,
starts today in the Indonesian resort city Bali, with the aim to strike a
deal for activating the multilateral trading system worldwide that would
reduce trading costs for the member countries.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will inaugurate the meeting
at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre (BNDCC), expected to be attended by
delegates of 169 countries. The participants include ministers, media
activists, NGO people and representatives from different international
organisations.
The policy makers of the participating countries will mainly discuss the
issues pertaining to LDCs, monitoring mechanism for special and
differential treatment, post Bali agenda, regular activities of WTO,
subsidies in agriculture and trade facilitation among the member
countries, at the four-day event.
“We will discuss efforts to enhance food security, eradicate poverty, and
develop underdeveloped regions in developing countries,” said Wirjawan,
who will also chair the conference.

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