Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:52 -0500 (EST) From: RTMARK Admin <admin at rtmark.com>
The World Trade Organization is proud to announce its new official home page, officially inaugurated just fifteen days before the "Millennium Round" negotiations begin in Seattle.
RTMark agreed to donate their own URL, http://rtmark.com/, to house the new WTO site for the next few weeks. All of the usual content of http://rtmark.com/ is available on the site, though in a somewhat different order that usual.
RTMark has previously donated websites to the George W. Bush presidential campaign (archived at http://rtmark.com/bush.html) and, most recently, to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (http://yesrudy.com/). With this newest donation, as with the earlier ones, RTMark hopes to help the beneficiary clarify its efforts and aims, which on the original site (in this case, http://www.wto.org/) are presented in a rather muddy fashion.
WTO Director Mike Moore expressed his respect for RTMark's intentions: "I just hope they are as reasonable as we try to be and that we engage in an intellectual, democratic way without any media terrorism." (Washington Post, 2 November 1999) Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative to the WTO, chimed in with an expression of hope: "The single greatest threat to the multilateral trade system is the absence of public support." (Financial Times, 11 October 1999)
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