[CTC] Fwd: Salvadorean anti-mining activists protest EU Central America Association Agreement

Thu Apr 11 18:14:25 PDT 2013

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Subject: 	Salvadorean anti-mining activists protest EU Central America 
Association Agreement
Date: 	Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:05:03 +0000
From: 	P. Cabezas <stopesmining at gmail.com>
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Salvadorean anti-mining activists protest EU Central America Association 
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        Salvadorean anti-mining activists protest EU-Central America
        Association Agreement

Following up on a request made to the Legislative Assembly in July 2012, 
members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining visited the 
Legislative Palace this morning to demand the non-ratification of the 
Association Agreement with the European Union (AdA). Environmentalists 
and social activists handed copies of the letter to the commissions of 
Economy and Foreign Affairs.
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining represents communities, 
religious and social organizations and nongovernmental organizations, 
who believe the AdA pose a threat to labor, environmental and human 
rights of the Salvadoran population.

The letter delivered today to the Legislature claims that the AdA 
subordinates bilateral political debate and international cooperation to 
market performance. "The AdA will change the traditional relations 
between the two regions on issues of cooperation and political debate as 
foreign aid funds will be channeled into market development mechanisms, 
support for business and strengthening state capacities to enhance the 
viability of trade agreement, "says the document.

The letter also makes reference to the continued limitation to the 
ability of the Central American countries to define their own strategies 
for development and economic integration. "As demonstrated with the FTA 
with the United States, these agreements place corporate interests over 
the interests Central American people. Current lawsuits from 
transnational mining corporations seeking to extort hundreds of millions 
of dollar from our country under the ICSID are the best example of this. 
" the letter says.

The specific demands of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining 
to the Commissions of Economy and Foreign Affairs are:

1. To develop a serious public debate, open and inclusive to not repeat 
the illegal ratification of CAFTA-DR, which was ratified without 
providing the opportunity to be read by all members of the legislative 
assembly.

2. To not ratify El Salvador as part of the Association Agreement 
between Central American countries and the European Union.

3. To summon a Legislative Commission to consider the options of not 
ratification.

San Salvador, April 10, 2013

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  * Salvadorenos contra el AdA
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  * Reitera movimiento a Congreso salvadoreño oposición a acuerdo con UE
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