NewsCIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT TO THE G33 MINISTER'S MEETING
[03-25-2007]The protection of livelihood, food security and rural development should remain at the heart of the Doha Development Round. The Doha Development Agenda should address the imbalances of the past agreement on agriculture one of the ways of addressing these imbalances is to give developing countries' right to raise tariffs and impose quantitative restrictions on imports without any compensation.
We urge G33 to reject the proposals of the US, World Bank and other countries and institutions seeking to undermine developing countries' right to use Special Products and Special Safeguard Mechanism to respond to their food security, livelihood security and rural development objectives.
