[asia-apec 1517] TV3 (NZ) on anti-WTO demo
APEC Monitoring Group
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Wed Aug 16 07:53:23 JST 2000
TV3 coverage
> MOORE AGGRO
> UPDATED: 09:05PM MONDAY 14 AUGUST
> Visiting World Trade Organisation director Mike
> Moore gave his only public speaking engagement
> in New Zealand today.
> The former Labour MP spoke at a business lunch
> in Christchurch, extolling the virtues of
> globalisation.
> Outside, a vocal anti-trade group staged their
> own reception for him.
> World trade organisation head Mike Moore back
> in Christchurch, but to a less than enthusiastic
> welcome.
> "Moore is less, less is more," they chanted.
> "He calls this his hometown, we're here to give
> him a message that we don't want him back
> here, he can stay in Geneva," said Murray Horton
> of the GATT watchdog group.
> But the group were happy to take advantage of
> his appearance to get their anti-free trade
> message across.
> We would be here if the WTO was heading by the
> Queen Mother or Todd Blackadder. That it's Mike
> Moore is a bonus, because he's such an
> unreconstructed 19th century man, an
> evangelist, a zealot, in favour of globalisation."
> One they today honoured - presenting a Moore
> lookalike with their own "unguided missile
> award," calling him their secret agent.
> "For services rendered for undermining the
> credibility and function of the WTO."
> But Mike Moore, who has run the gauntlet of
> much more violent protests like those in Seattle
> during December's WTO meetings, was unfazed
> by today's demonstration.
> "It's one of the great honours of my life that I'm
> the first New Zealander to be burned in effigy in
> four continents."
> Mike Moore returns to Geneva in ten days.
>
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