WikiLeaks documents on trade talks: 'A dark day for democracy'
3rd June 2015,
WikiLeaks has released 17 secret documents from the ongoing TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) negotiations which cover 25 countries.
| Global Justice Now press release |
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Wikileaks release secret trade negotiations documents
Global Justice Now response |
| WikiLeaks today released 17 secret documents from the ongoing TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) negotiations which cover the United States, the European Union and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan & Israel -- which together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. "Services" now account for nearly 80 per cent of the US and EU economies and even in developing countries like Pakistan account for 53 per cent of the economy. While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become well known in recent months in the United States, the TISA is the larger component of the strategic TPP-TISA-TTIP 'T-treaty trinity'. Responding to the leaks, Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now said: “These leaks reinforce the concerns of campaigners about the threat that TISA poses to vital public services. There is no mandate for such a far-reaching programme of liberalisation in services. It’s when we are dependent on leaks like this for the general public to be informed of the radical restructuring of regulatory frameworks that our governments are proposing.” |
