Today, Lionel Jospin Prime Minister of France, responding to a question of a parliamantary during today's session, confirmed that France will not come back to the next round of negociations of the MAI planned to take place next week at the OECD in Paris.
The prime Minister added that a 'more suitable fora should be the WTO'.
Following, the report from Euro Deputy Mrs Lalumiere, which is soon to be released, the Prime Minister stated : 'we can not leave a multilateral agreement protecting only private interests rule out the sovereignety of States' end of citation.
For the French Coordination against MAI
Etienne Vernet et Thierry David ----------------------------------- Margrete Strand Rangnes MAI Project Coordinator Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 215 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington DC, 20003 mstrand at citizen.org 202-546 4996, ext. 306 202-547 7392 (fax)