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<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">We have the pleasure to send your the last seventh electronic
report edited by CETIM.</span><br><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><big>
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Succinct Presentation of This Report:</b><br>
<b><u>INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE
AGREEMENTS</u></b><br>
There is a dense network of economic and financial agreements and
treaties – international, regional, sub-regional and bilateral – that
have superseded the basic instruments<br>
of international and regional human rights, including the right to a
safe environment. Constitutions and national laws intended to promote
harmonious national<br>
development and political, economic, social, cultural and environmental
human rights have been subordinated to them.<br>
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This network, as a consequence of the implementation of “most
favourable treatment”, “national treatment” and “most favoured nation”
clauses that appear<br>
in almost every treaty, works as an interconnecting system that allows
neo-liberal policies to operate freely on a planetary scale and
penetrate countries<br>
where they result in the dismantling of national economies, provoking
grave social harm.<br>
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All this involves the primacy of the interests of capital over the
democratic and human rights of peoples. Liberalization and
privatization policies are coalescing into a<br>
legally binding system. And these policies are being made irreversible
through international agreements.....<br><font color="#888888">
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CETIM - Centre Europe-Tiers Monde<br>Genève<br><a href="http://www.cetim.ch" target="_blank">www.cetim.ch</a>
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