[Nettime-bold] RE: Gibraltar

[The World Trade Organization <info@gatt.org>]

p.s. Your question as phrased in your last mail, "Is Gibraltar etc.
etc.", is in no way the same as those of your first two mails. In
fact, I am forced to conclude that your question keeps changing. If
you can resolve upon a single question and stick to it, there is every
chance that it can be answered appropriately, in spite of everything.
GHHS

> Now Mr. Carse, there's no reason to get uppity. We are on your
> side--you, the little man who plays by the rules. We are here to help
> you understand the exigencies of the global playground, so that you
> may understand the pathways through which you and your government MAY
> move and those through which you MAY NOT. Given this, it is hard to
> say why you would seek to endanger your standing through impatient
> words. If I were you, given the circumstances, I would question
> whether my nation (the Isle of Man, in your case) is really all that
> interested in benefitting from trade.
> 
> But to answer your question: Gibraltar's business arrangements are not
> the affair of other governments, either yours or those of more
> populous lands. Gibraltar is free and sovereign to enter into trade
> arrangements with the enterprises that choose it, and it would be a
> violation of Gibraltar--and I mean that in the full sense--to suggest
> that the whim of the people--its own, or those of other lands--can
> impede those arrangements.
> 
> With very best wishes,
> Granwyth Hulatberi-Hulatberi-Smith
> 
> You wrote:
> >
> >I have absolutely no idea what your reply is all about.  May I just repeat
> >my simple request?  Is Gibraltar a member of WTO in its own right or is it a
> >member through the United Kingdom?  
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: The World Trade Organization [mailto:info@gatt.org]
> >Sent: 12 May 2001 00:58
> >To: Carse, Steve
> >Subject: RE: Gibraltar
> >
> >
> >No land on earth may be considered free, if freedom means to engage in
> >activities that endanger the well-being of corporate enterprise. So
> >long as, and only so long as, nations understand their place on
> >earth as being in service of, and at the beck of, the driving forces
> >of economics, so shall these nations be afforded a place at the right
> >hand of power. But let the tiniest nation--yea, even Gibraltar, even
> >the Isle of Man--arise upon the poop-deck of declamation... let it
> >wield for even a moment the baton of popular power against the
> >furnace of progress... let it stagger drunkenly into the path of the
> >train of misguidedness... then, indeed, shall that nation see the full
> >force of our petulance and our peevishness unleashed squarely upon its
> >head, and all its head's heads as well.
> >
> >(Sorry for that rant--we have a bug on our shoulder
> >since the latest round of dangerous-idea circulation masquerading as
> >protest.)
> >
> >Best,
> >Granwyth Hulatberi-Hulatberi-Smith
> >
> >You wrote:
> >>My enquiry was to do with whether Gibraltar has a relationship with WTO
> >that
> >>was similar to the one we, the Isle of Man, has.  Your response does not
> >>help me on this.  Can you say anything more e.g. is it free to have its own
> >>exemptions?
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: The World Trade Organization [mailto:info@gatt.org]
> >>Sent: 11 May 2001 20:23
> >>To: Carse, Steve
> >>Subject: Re: Gibraltar
> >>
> >>
> >>Yes. Gibraltar is a little plot of land at the tip of Spain, right
> >>across from Morocco, under the governorship of Britain. The WTO is the
> >>World Trade Organization, which was created to allow a greater freedom
> >>for corporate entities to engage in their activities unhampered by the
> >>protective strategies of democratically elected governments.
> >>
> >>Why do you ask?
> >>
> >>You wrote:
> >>>Could you advise me of the relationship of Gibraltar to the WTO?  
> >>>
> >>>Stephen Carse
> >>>Government Economic Adviser
> >>>Economic Affairs Division
> >>>The Treasury
> >>>Illiam Dhone House 
> >>>2 Circular Road
> >>>Douglas
> >>>Isle of Man
> >>>
> >>>Tel:  01624 685741
> >>>Fax: 01624 685747
> >>>
> >>>steve.carse@economics.treasury.gov.im
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>WARNING:
> >>>If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail you must not copy or
> >>>deliver it to anyone else or use it in any unauthorised manner.
> >>>


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