Editor
28th June 2002, 16:29
Summit with Gnashing Teeth
G-8 in Canada - dissonances in the value community
The meeting of the G8 leaders in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was at first dominated by one of the largest balance frauds of a large US corperation in history and by strong disagreements with US president George W. Bush's demand that Palestinian president Yassir Arafat has to vanish from the political stage. The conflicts are not new. Since the last G8 meeting in Genoa one year ago an increasing number of transatlantic conflicts of interest and inconsiderate solo efforts of the Bush administration led to increasing tensions with Europeans. Thus recently the European Union commissioner Pascal Lamy responsible for the international trade determined that criticism of the United States is welcomed lately in the European parliament regularly with strong applause.
Reasons for continuous annoyance are, among other things, the US retreat from the environmental agreement of Kyoto, the notice of the ABM contract and the efforts of Washington to leave the International Criminal Court at the last minute. Then within the last days Washington threatened even the retreat of all American troops from Bosnia, which would bring the Europeans there into a precarious situation. About the invention of the "axes of evil", the unconcealed war threats against Iraq and other states or the arroganted "right" to preventive military strikes the, European leaders are anything but happy. In addition strong commercial conflicts come, i.e. the decision of the US government to increase customs to steel imported goods by 30 per cent and to supplement the subsidies for the US agriculture strongly. So it was also not only the recent solo effort of the US president against Arafat, which let the corporate media talk in the apron of the G8 meeting about general "resentments".
Three topics dominated the summit: Russia, aid for Africa and, although not on the agenda, Bush's speech against Arafat. Russia will recieve 20 billion US dollars in the next ten years to secure and dispose of the Russian camps with ABC weapons. But the receipt of the money depends whether the Russians accept the extensive control measures and/or rights to insight, demanded by the west.
From Africa the state and head of the governments are invited from Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Algeria, in order to confirm the US version over the reasons for the African poverty. As a big success therefore the G8 politicians and the western media estimated that the "Africans admit for the first time that the common corruption and undemocratic, inefficient government guidance are one of the central causes of the continuous disaster in Africa." (Der Speiegel). The confession is the precondition for the "Nepad" concept, the "great" plan for reform for Africa. On the central demands of the Africans, additional edicts of debts and the opening of the markets for products of Africa in the prosperous countries, it shows now interest of.
To the other G8 representatives Bush steped in his anti-Arafat campaign and announced that he will prevent all remedial measures for the Palestinians, because he "does't want to put money into a society", which is controlled "by a corrupt guidance, which is financing terrorists". Thus Bush alluded to a report of the Israeli intelligence service, according to which Arafat authorized allegedly the payment of 20000 US dollar to the al Aksa Martyr Brigades. The US president requested that all other countries stop their financial assistance to Palestine and warned at the same time that the Palestinians vote wrongly. Publicly only Tony Blair approached on this position, all other Europeans remained with the fact that the Palestinians would have to determine their leaders themselves.
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-28/001.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, Lindsay Neil.
(Edited by Editor at 8:26 pm on July 2, 2002)
G-8 in Canada - dissonances in the value community
The meeting of the G8 leaders in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was at first dominated by one of the largest balance frauds of a large US corperation in history and by strong disagreements with US president George W. Bush's demand that Palestinian president Yassir Arafat has to vanish from the political stage. The conflicts are not new. Since the last G8 meeting in Genoa one year ago an increasing number of transatlantic conflicts of interest and inconsiderate solo efforts of the Bush administration led to increasing tensions with Europeans. Thus recently the European Union commissioner Pascal Lamy responsible for the international trade determined that criticism of the United States is welcomed lately in the European parliament regularly with strong applause.
Reasons for continuous annoyance are, among other things, the US retreat from the environmental agreement of Kyoto, the notice of the ABM contract and the efforts of Washington to leave the International Criminal Court at the last minute. Then within the last days Washington threatened even the retreat of all American troops from Bosnia, which would bring the Europeans there into a precarious situation. About the invention of the "axes of evil", the unconcealed war threats against Iraq and other states or the arroganted "right" to preventive military strikes the, European leaders are anything but happy. In addition strong commercial conflicts come, i.e. the decision of the US government to increase customs to steel imported goods by 30 per cent and to supplement the subsidies for the US agriculture strongly. So it was also not only the recent solo effort of the US president against Arafat, which let the corporate media talk in the apron of the G8 meeting about general "resentments".
Three topics dominated the summit: Russia, aid for Africa and, although not on the agenda, Bush's speech against Arafat. Russia will recieve 20 billion US dollars in the next ten years to secure and dispose of the Russian camps with ABC weapons. But the receipt of the money depends whether the Russians accept the extensive control measures and/or rights to insight, demanded by the west.
From Africa the state and head of the governments are invited from Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Algeria, in order to confirm the US version over the reasons for the African poverty. As a big success therefore the G8 politicians and the western media estimated that the "Africans admit for the first time that the common corruption and undemocratic, inefficient government guidance are one of the central causes of the continuous disaster in Africa." (Der Speiegel). The confession is the precondition for the "Nepad" concept, the "great" plan for reform for Africa. On the central demands of the Africans, additional edicts of debts and the opening of the markets for products of Africa in the prosperous countries, it shows now interest of.
To the other G8 representatives Bush steped in his anti-Arafat campaign and announced that he will prevent all remedial measures for the Palestinians, because he "does't want to put money into a society", which is controlled "by a corrupt guidance, which is financing terrorists". Thus Bush alluded to a report of the Israeli intelligence service, according to which Arafat authorized allegedly the payment of 20000 US dollar to the al Aksa Martyr Brigades. The US president requested that all other countries stop their financial assistance to Palestine and warned at the same time that the Palestinians vote wrongly. Publicly only Tony Blair approached on this position, all other Europeans remained with the fact that the Palestinians would have to determine their leaders themselves.
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-28/001.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, Lindsay Neil.
(Edited by Editor at 8:26 pm on July 2, 2002)