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Joint Statement of Korean and Japanese Workers and Social Movements
We Demand an Immediate Stop
to Korea-Japan Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
- The FTA will destroy the livelihoods of people in the two countries!
The governments of Korea and Japan will hold the 6th negotiations for
the Korea-Japan Free Trade Agreement (KJFTA), from 1st to 3rd November,
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kasumikaseki, Tokyo. Workers, social
movements and NGOs in Korea and Japan have strongly been demanding that
the two governments immediately halt their negotiations and that they
gain the consensus of people in the twocountries, ever since the talks
began last December. This is because the KJFTA has the potential to
infringe the most basic rights of the people in thetwo countries.
However, the two governments have consistently turned a deaf ear to our
demands and continue their negotiations.
After the Doha Development Agenda framework was agreed upon during the
WTO General Council meeting in July, governments are further driving for
bilateral and regional FTAs that they had been promoting. Amidst all
this, Korean and Japanese governments plan to conclude the KJFTA in 2005
to mark the 40th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations
between the two nations, and then to go further to establish a free
trade area in the East Asia region, including China.
At the moment, the two governments are refusing to disclose any of the
contents of the negotiations, citing reasons ofcustom'. In order words,
issues that are of great concern to the everyday lives of people in the
two countries, such as labour, environment, healthcare, and agricultural
sovereignty, are being unilaterally discussed behind firmly closed
doors. If the two governments come to an agreement, the FTA will then
immediately be submitted to the National Assemblies to be ratified. At
this very moment, our precious lives and rights are being traded off in
such a ridiculous way. Our lives, our environment, our health are not
objects that can be traded. This Earth that we live upon is, for sure,
not a commodity. Therefore, we sternly disagree to the negotiations that
are taking place.
Prior to the KJFTA negotiations, business, government and academic
counterparts of the two countries published a 'Korea-Japan FTA Joint
Study Group Report' last October. This report unilaterally concludes
that although in the short run, the KJFTA is expected to have a negative
impact on Korea due to increased trade deficit, in the long run, it will
be beneficial toboth countries because of the strategic alliances that
will take place between industries. Nowhere in the report is there a
mention of the fact that increased trade deficit against Japan will
force small businesses to bankrupt, nor that restructuring and
integration of businesses through "strategic alliances" will drive
workers and their families onto the streets. This is why there are
rising voices in Korea, which is expected to be hit harder, calling
for 'caution' or a stop altogether.
The effects of the KJFTA become even more evident, when we look at it
sector by sector. In agriculture, in a situation where rate of food self-
sufficiency is dropping in both countries, the FTA will further weaken
the foundations of food production. From the perspective of consumers,
measures that have been recommended, such as the Mutual Recognition
Agreement (MRA), Sanitary & Phyto-Sanitary Measures and the introduction
of Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) standards, have the potential to
threaten health and food safety. The Korea-Japan Bilateral Investment
Treaty (BIT) that took off in January 2003, despite resistance of both
countries, takes the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) as its
model. The governments are now discussing the possibility of integrating
the clauses of the BIT into the FTA, with the intention of further
progressing, through the FTA, ! the investment treaty. We cannot accept
this strengthening of the investment treaty, which enables foreign
investors to file suits against the State while ignoring labour and
other regulations of the invested country.
The KJFTA negotiations are also tabling measures that will seriously
undermine various social movements, including the workers, peasants,
environment and consumer movements, by including 'Non-Tariff Measures'
and 'Reorganization of Business Environments'. The FTA identifies
various movements that are directly related to lives of people to
be 'non-tariff trade barriers' that obstruct free trade and investment.
Moreover, the governments are investigating into the possibility of
introducing measures to suppress people's movements - which are
considered as 'barriers' - under the name of 'reorganizing business
environments'. This is something that is not even in the WTO. The
attempts toundermine rights of the people through 'non-tariff measures'
and 'reorganization of business environments' must immediately be
stopped.
Today, the 'Korean Struggle Delegation to Stop KJFTA' arrived in Japan,
to voice out our refutation against the FTA. Japanese social movements
and organizations have formed the 'November Joint Action Committee
against the KJFTA Negotiations' in solidarity with the Korean Struggle
Delegation and to undertake joint struggles. We declare that from today
until 3rd November, workers, social movements and NGOs of Korea and
Japan will initiate joint actions against the KJFTA November
negotiations, and we adamantly demand the following to the negotiators
of the two countries.
- Disclose all negotiations and proceedings to the public!
- Immediately halt all attempts to undermine rights of workers and
peoples under the name of 'non-tariff measures' and 'reorganization of
business environments'!
- Immediately stop negotiations for all free trade agreements,
including the Korea-Japan FTA, which destroy our work, our lives, our
environment and our human rights!
1st November, 2004
Korean Struggle Delegation to Stop KJFTA (Korea)
'November Joint Action Committee against the KJFTA Negotiations' (Japan)
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