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COL Resolution 01-02 COUNCIL OF LEADERS’ RESOLUTION URGING PRES. GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO TO CALL FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY’S POSITION IN THE WTO AWARE
that the WTO is imposing a model of development on the Global South, the
Philippines included, where trade and trade liberalization are treated as
ends in themselves, rather than as means to achieve the greater goal of
human and social development; KNOWING
that WTO agreements have not only denied the countries of the Global South
the traditional routes towards industrialization and sustainable
development but also threaten to rollback
whatever development the South has gained so far; CONCERNED
that instead of addressing the numerous issues of inequities in previous
WTO agreements broached by the Global South, the Doha Declaration has
directed the WTO towards negotiations that would cover the so-called
"new issues" of investments, competition policy, government
procurement and trade facilitation after the 5th Session of the
Ministerial Conference that will be held in 2004; APPREHENSIVE
of the ongoing negotiations on the “built-in” issues of agriculture
under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and of services
under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) where commitments
are being made without prior public consultations; DISTRESSED
that regular jobs are being lost in a wide range of industries that are
unable to effectively compete under a liberalized trade regime; ENCOURAGED
by the recent statements of Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II
calling for the country to rethink its position in the WTO in light of
protectionist action by some WTO members who have been at the forefront of
urging developing countries to open up their markets; RESOLVED,
THEREFORE, TO URGE PRES. GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO TO CALL FOR A PUBLIC
REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY’S POSITION IN THE WTO ON THE BASIS OF ITS
AGREEMENT’S EFFECTIVENESS IN: ADDRESSING POVERTY REDUCTION; PROMOTING
HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; AND, PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS. DONE THIS 26th DAY OF MARCH 2002.
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