4 Amendments of Vittorio AGNOLETTO related to 2007/2184(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas when the current WTO round was launched in Doha, Qatar in 2001, it was officially named the “Doha Development Agenda,” emphasising the priority of helping developing and poor countries gain more from trade liberalisation, and this priority was a consequence of the global solidarity that emerged in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas despite that ensuing moment of enlightenment, many of the major players, including the United States and the European Union, soon gave short shrift to the development agenda and reverted to their traditional priority of gaining market access for their own competitive firms and sectors,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas today, two and a half years after the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong (2005) and with no evidence of any substantial advancement in the Doha Round negotiations, we have the historical opportunity to set talks on a better course to achieve the agreed objective of rebalancing trade rules so that developing and poor countries can benefit more, and we could do it by opening a debate on the principles that have driven the WTO so far and questioning the lack of democracy that this organisation has shown from 1995 onwards,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Declares itself in favour of a fair and just international trade system and a completely new multilateral organisation where basic human rights always come before financial and industrial interests;