Thursday November 9, 2006
• The official English text is known in the U.S. is different from the version in English.
A further point of order raised by Rep. Maroto Bravo Sadie passed unanimously requested the English version of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States Comex.
The motion stated: "That prompted the Ministry of Foreign Trade take the necessary steps in order to request and submit to the Commission the text of the CAFTA-DR in English. The text must be complete including attachments ".
The fraction of CAP has investigated the English versions of TLC that is handled in Guatemala and the United States, they contain the description in the form of non-conforming measures of the 50 states and two districts, which could imply that in reality the Treaty was being processed in Legislative Assembly, which is not actually applied.
This is of concern to the fraction of the CAP as the official publication that makes the Official Gazette of the projects and the law should be that will be implemented in the country. "This must be fully complied to enable citizens to be adequately informed about the scope of projects and of law, on the potential benefits or harm and thereby enabling the citizenry as a repository of sovereignty to exercise their constitutional right to demand accountability from their representatives who are transient in this First Branch of the Republic, but if the citizens and, if productive and social sectors of this country do not have with real and reliable information, how they define their positions and how they will exercise their rights properly, "insisted Rep. Maroto Bravo.
The PAC for the sake of transparency that negotiators did not show this FTA has requested this version because it may contain information that should be incorporated in the record, moreover, that it is essential that all Costa Rican citizens can better understand the commitments acquired by Costa Rica, is being limited, what are the hidden truths, half truths such as demonstrated in the office 759, with non-conforming measures not included in the version that handles the Assembly Legislature.
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