[asia-apec 626] Re: Malaysian Government tells APPA to go through proper channels

[David E. Ortman]

4 September 1998

Regarding the article below, could someone write the Star a correction or
forward this message:

The original APEC Leaders' Meeting took place in 1993  in Seattle, WA (USA)
not in Osaka.   Human rights, labor and environmental NGOs came together at
APEC '93 in Seattle  under the banner, "The Hidden Costs of Free Trade".
NGO representatives requested and obtained a two-hour meeting with the APEC
Secretariart to present concerns directly to APEC.

David E. Ortman
NGO Coordinator (APEC '93)
Seattle, WA





At 03:59 PM 9/4/98, PAN Asia Pacific wrote:
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>The Star
>September 4, 1998
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>Go Through Proper Channels, Rafidah tells NGOs
>by Jacqueline Ann Surin
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>KUALA LUMPUR: Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) organising a
>people's summit parallel to the APEC leaders' meeting here in
>November, will have to go through the proper channels to do so.
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>International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz
>said the ministry was aware that such a meeting was being
>organised but "we have nothing to do with it".
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>"The NGOs have to seek permission through the proper channels- for
>example, getting a police permit for their meeting," she said. 
>rafidah was responding to an announcement be the Asia Pacific
>Peoples' Assembly (APPA) Secretariat last week that a parallel
>people's meeting would be held before the APEC leaders' meeting. 
>APPA spokesman Tian Chua had said that the parallel meeting would
>provide an alternative forum for people to discuss the APEC
>process and globalisation in its broader social and political
>context.
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>Since the original APEC Leaders' Meeting in Osaka in 1993,
>representatives from NGOs, grassroots groups and social justice
>movements have met in similar alternative forums like in Manila in
>1996 and in Vancouver last year. 
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