November 29, 2006
• Francisco Antonio Pacheco expressed his strong opposition to the FTA with Mexico, which made him change his mind on the FTA with the U.S.?
• Minister of Education acknowledged months ago that the FTA will impact on different areas as the system of health and agriculture, but now profess that the FTA will be a blessing for the country.
Trejos • The former minister claimed that during the negotiation would resist delivering telecommunications as a commercial, but in the negotiations gave the ICE to the transnationals.
Alberto Salom deputy confronted the plenary Assembly President Francisco Antonio Pacheco, regarding how some years strongly opposed the approval of the FTA with Mexico.
"Those who defended the treaty with more force were those who had negotiated the Comex both technical, political leaders previous government, to be argued out of courtesy, perhaps the argument most put to doubt the deputies and ministers, at first inclined to reject most was that it would not be a good signal to the world, as if the world cared about the national interest must take precedence over such reasons, "Dr. Francisco Antonio Pacheco, president of the Legislative Assembly.
And goes on to quote" In the case of Costa Rica, it is likely that the disproportionate prestige of the foreign, sometimes has beaten the national life and end up depriving thoughtlessly impose that agenda that reaches out and produces an almost universal sense of monotony, through it, the problems of the countries appear to be similar, the issues are the same, the solutions are equal, the differences become a matter of size dimensions outside of themselves, incidental, are a curiosity that leads to such well-known phrases starting to say in Argentina, while in New Zealand or Chile, because the plans to find the exit of the problems are not even fit in the dimensions of each country. This is not to mention if you want your story. "
And they would relate to the measures of each country, if the rescuer approach has the characteristics of one-size clothing and one wonders what has become the story?, is not everywhere said we were a different country? Francisco Antonio Pacheco, the free trade agreement with Mexico.
confronted the same arguments as wielding the Education Minister Leonardo Garnier Rímolo.
"Domestic producers of generics, which must now wait to market their products until the expiration of the term of protection, the exclusive, which represents the previous article, your business will be affected." Rímolo Leonardo Garnier, Minister of Education.
continues: "The commodification of knowledge. Not only would be illegal to decode a satellite signal to market, but it would be a crime to invent or import, or have equipment capable of decoding such signals. Not only would be illegal to make copies of an album to sell, but would be a crime to invent, sell, buy or have a machine capable of copying the contents of the disc. And it would be a crime to invent software decoder, or a biological process that sterile seeds cease to be ... "" ... It is precisely in this direction that moves the Free Trade Agreement, which adds legal restrictions against tax evasion of technological protection measures for intellectual property and severely penalize non-compliance. Paradoxically, as it prohibits even invent processes or tools that can jump the technological protection mechanisms, which, literally, not only slows down scientific research, but falls in a clear case of hypocrisy, because the same companies that today seek such prohibitions were the first to invent and market such devices. "Rímolo claimed Leonardo Garnier, Minister of Education.
On the issue of telecommunications the now Minister of Education stated that on telecommunications Annex 13 should never be there, should not be part of the free trade agreement, and they had said the president Abel Pacheco and his Minister of Commerce Exterior. For the sake of transparency and recognition in these negotiations were much more information available than in any previous negotiations, or in any other country in the region, this is a point that simply "Costa Ricans we feel cheated, and I think that reason. "
"The way I would not, and that is what has followed most of the countries of Latin America, with a few high-profile successes and failures, is the privatization, but that is not what is proposed in the TLC, but a cock-hen I do not quite understand, and apparently would keep the ICE as the primary provider, modernized and a bit less tied, but collaborating and competing with other potential providers of private services "Rímolo Leonardo Garnier, Minister of Education.
" When it is said that new borrowers should have access to the ICE network, without any discrimination and here also said that under the conditions governing a few years ago, which is absurd and, above all, at cost, what are we talking about? Finally, of course, would reject the whole free trade agreement with this point, perhaps it would be an overreaction, although it would be a deserved punishment for those who slipped this Annex in the last minute, I think more interest local groups than by the United States pressure "Leonardo Garnier, Minister of Education.
For his part, former Minister of Foreign Trade said:" It is true, in this negotiation are sensitive issues in some of the issues in the United States and Central America historically we have not agreed sensitivities are large, an example, telecommunications. We are absolutely clear, I repeat, absolutely clear that this is not an issue in trade negotiations, Costa Rica, why ? For by his inner nature Costa Ricans have a vision of the development strategy that gives telecoms a role that goes beyond the commercial role, and the discussion on this issue, we've had over the years along, it makes sense to be in the national context, and not in the international context in which we continue discussing.
Still, this will be a sensitivity in the negotiation, because usually in other countries this is an issue seen as nothing more than commercial, and, therefore, be part of the discussion between Central America and the United States, we have to penetrate the idea that to Costa Rica this issue transcends the commercial and, therefore, is not part of the negotiation, is not part of the negotiation, we will immerse the item, we will immerse the item, because it is a type of thing which, if not, there is no agreement, we will continue discussing indefinitely, but there is no agreement, I think they understand me, I think we understand very clear. "
" In agriculture there are sensitive issues, eighty-two percent of Costa Rica is an agro agro exporter, eighty-two percent of cultivated land in Costa Rica, is littered with products which are net exporters of the world including the United States, that is the size of the opportunity for a country setting in agriculture is aggressive, because not in vain is the net exporter of agricultural fifteenth of the world, obviously there is another part of the agricultural sector is still very protected, which is not in the same condition export potential for which this, rather than an opportunity, is a sensitivity. Well, obviously sensitive to manage, if it were a treaty immediate convergence of unrestricted free trade, these sectors would have problems, fortunately there is an immediate convergence sought unrestricted free trade, is a treaty that will be negotiated which instruments mount for better protection and care of these sectors, together with what resources and which programs "Alberto Trejos Zuniga, a former Minister of Foreign Trade.
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