Re: New rules for the primitive accumulation of capital

[Eubulides <paraconsistent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



> 02.11.2003 NEW YORK - The UN General Assembly has approved the world's
first
> anti-corruption treaty that requires nations to return stolen assets to
> countries from which they were pillaged. The treaty, two years in the
> drafting, will enter into force 90 days after 30 governments have
ratified
> it. It opens for signatures in Merida, Mexico, from December 9 to 11.
> "Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately," UN Secretary-General
Kofi
> Annan told the 191-member assembly today. "Corruption is a key element
in
> economic under-performance and a major obstacle to poverty alleviation
and
> development."
>
> The treaty, he said, "makes a major breakthrough by requiring member
states
> to return assets obtained through corruption to the country from which
they
> were stolen." Developing nations were anxious to have the asset recovery
> provision adopted, particularly those where high-level corruption
plundered
> the national wealth.


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And just what is the non-defeasible, baseline definition of corruption
international lawyers are to deploy in order to unwind the 'original'
appropriations???????????

This is the kind of stuff that gives the US Right even more anti-UN
'ammo.'


Ian