At UN, Ocean
Conference Has Corporate
Sponsors Like Suez, Protested
for Privatization, ICP Asks
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
June 5 – As the Ocean
Conference started at the UN
there were corporate exhibits
including a large one by Suez
Environmental, a firm much
protested for its role in
water privatization. Inner
City Press asked the UN
Department of Public
Information, which is
sponsoring press conference
complete with corporate
moderators asking softball
questions to supermarket
chains, who in the UN is
vetting these corporate
commitments. You'll have to
wait until the end of the
week, was the answer. But the
corporations are already
getting blue washed in the UN
website and hallways, just as
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres reflexively offered
praise to Citigroup last week,
while his Global Compact
covered up for a company
exploiting the natural
resources of Western Sahara.
Meanwhile another topic Inner
City Press started asking
about last week, fisheries
subsidies, will not be acted
on in the Ocean Conference but
rather, if at all, in the
World Trade Organization at
the end of the year. We'll
have more on this.
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