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Call to Support Action Against the G8 Development Ministerial Meeting in TokyoCall to Support for Our Action Against the G8
Development Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo:
Stop G8! Solidarity March in the South and the North
The Japanese government will host some Ministerial meetings before the
G8summit in Toyako in July. As a part of the meetings, the G8
DevelopmentMinisterial Meeting is planned in Tokyo on 5-6 April. Those
kinds ofMeetings had been held around the same time as the IMF and the
WorldBank's annual meetings before 2002. This shows that the Meeting has
beenstrongly influenced by major powers and big businesses.
G8 countries and transnational companies promoted 'development' in
poorcountries, but it causes various problems everywhere such as abuse
ofhuman rights, illegitimate debts, and global warming. Nonetheless,
theJapanese government the host country does not think seriously about
thepast failures.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda set three agendas on 'development'
-healthcare, water, and education - for key critical issues in
WorldEconomic Forum in Davos this January, but he never referred to the
IMF andthe WB's Structural Adjustment Policies which force developing
countriesto cut their public services including healthcare, water, and
education.Also, he ignored debt problems which have led to further poverty
indeveloping countries.
Fukuda officially announced that the government would help
Africancountries to set up infrastructure of roads, power networks or the
like.to facilitate private investment. The announcement clearly shows that
theJapanese government and G8 countries aim to end the poverty
THROUGHECONOMIC GROWTH WITH INCREASED PRIVATE INVESTMENT..
This traditional way of development is based on neo-liberalism. It
resultsin violating human rights for many people such as workers, farmers,
orwomen, massively destroying environment, producing huge profits
formultinational companies, and finally triggering large protests
againstmajor powers and big corporations all over the world.
African development and climate change are presented as key agenda of
theG8 Summit by the Japanese government, which is the same with
TokyoInternational Conference on African Development (TICAD) IV planned
inYokohama around the end of May. Issues on African development will
bediscussed as a top agenda at TICAD IV. The councils have already been
setup as a forum for discussion between the government and
multinationalcorporations like trading or construction companies
We organize a March against the Development Ministerial Meeting in Tokyoon
5 April to express our voices, 'Enough is Enough!', which will alsoserve
as a good opportunity to think about issues of the dominance of theNorth
over the South again. This is part of our activities against the G8summit
in Toyako in July. We ask all of you to support our action for'another
world' without poverty, violence, exploitation, and
environmentaldevastation.
http://a.sanpal.co.jp/no-g8/
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