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Quotes on
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| Managing
Director of the European Services Forum, Pascal Kerneis |
22
May 2001
Speech
at an International Conference organised by the Forum of
Environment and Development |
"
GATS is about freedom of the WTO members to make commitments
or not. That is a major message which should be repeated here.
When numerous governments accepted to make a commitment in
more than 34 areas during the last Uruguay round, it is
because they felt that their country and their economy would
be able to take advantage of this liberalisation. And this
indeed has been the case. One should again and again repeat
that under GATS, it is only the governments of each WTO member
country that decide on which services they want to make a
commitment and can attach to them whatever conditions they
choose. All WTO members which have, either in their official
schedule of commitments during the last services negotiations
or by autonomous internal decision, decided to liberalise some
of their services sectors will recognise that they have
benefited from it." |
| Joint
Statement U.S., European and Japanese Service Industries |
10
May 2001
European
Services Forum
Press Release |
"
If
barriers to trade in goods and services were completely
eliminated, world economic welfare would increase an
additional $1.9 trillion, benefiting developed and developing
countries alike. A broader WTO Round should be able to reduce
barriers to trade in goods and services by one-third, which
would still add approximately $613 billion to the world
economy." |
| South
Africa President, Nelson
Mandela |
May
1998
Speech
at the Summit to mark the 50th Anniversary of the GATT/WTO
multilateral trading system
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" We are firmly of the belief that the
existence of the GATT, and now the World Trade Organization,
as a rules-based system provides the foundation on which our
deliberations can build in order to improve[…] As we enter
the new millennium, let us forge a partnership for development
through trade and investment."
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