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Global Biotech Battle Heats Up In Montreal
Posted on Monday, May 23 at 15:15 by Milton
Ahmed ElAmin reports.
About 800 representatives from around the world are due for the second round of negotiations on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, from 25 May to 3 June. Among them will be representatives of the food processing, shipping and agricultural sectors. The main decision-making meeting begins on 30 May.
Biotechnology lies at the centre of debates on the future of world agriculture, on international trade relations, on how to protect biological diversity, on the role of multinational corporations, globalisation, and, in the end, on whether consumers can have confidence in the food they eat. It means multinational food processors will have to walk carefully and carry a lot of lawyers when venturing into this new world, because all of the restrictions being put into place expose them to risk and liability.
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<a href="http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/action/bsp/index.php">http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/action/bsp/index.php</a><p>---<br>These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters
Dear Friends,
This is 24 May, late in the afternoon. I have just received my visa to enter Canada. Therefore, I will join most of you in Montreal. If all travel arrangements work out, I will arrive in Montreal on the evening of 26 May. I should then join you for the last day of Liability and Redress. I hope to arrive when the shape of our future international regime on liability and redress is becoming visible to you all. I will then join in and help my best to make it more visible. Hopefully in one or two meetings after this, we will have it firmly established among us to save us from irresponsibility in genetic engineering.
Thank you all for your tremendous support. Multilateralism was getting another knock from the State level, but the grass roots multilateralism in which you have all been a joint force has won.
May be we should keep grass roots multilateralism to keep State arrogance in check. Give it more thought. I will also give it more thought. I may come back to you on the issue.
Long live grass roots globalization!
Your very grateful friend,
Tewolde Berhan Gebre Gziabher
Cc:- - Dr. Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary of the CBD
secretariat@biodiv.org
Montreal, Canada
- The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister,
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Embassy of Canada, Addis Ababa
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These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters