Red Alert!!! ABLP pleased that it has stopped “reckless” UPP plan to apply sanctions on large US companies The Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party has welcomed the backing-down of the governing United Progressive Party from its plan to apply copyright sanctions against the government of the United States of America. The ABLP has condemned this reckless plan of implementing copyright sanctions against the United States as foolhardy. For UPP to persist with this ill-advised action, would encouraged harsh responses from the US government that would have adversely affected businesses, the financial services sector, tourism and citizens travelling to and from the US. The ALP led Government had challenged United States for violation of its obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services governing cross-border gaming via the Internet at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and won case on the day before the UPP won the March 2004 general elections. Our demitting office in March 2004 prohibited us from pursuing with the United States the victory we had won for the country. UPP since forming the government have bungled the issue now for ten years with no mutual satisfactory solution in sight. The rash and irresponsible UPP plan to apply sanctions against the copyright of some of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world would have sunk Antigua and Barbuda even more deeply into the economic decline that the UPP has created. As part of our plans for returning our Nation to positive and sustainable growth ABLP will immediately set about to pursue a satisfactory and beneficial solution with the United States. ABLP has continued to monitor the situation and we are confident that mutually beneficial solution to satisfy our country’s successful complaint at the WTO can be reached. This will ensure we retain beneficial relations with the US”. (ends)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:01:15 +0000
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