한국투쟁단, 최루액에 랩으로 맞섰지만

항의서한 전달 위해, 다시 컨벤션 센터 진입 시도


거리 행진을 진행했던 집회 참가자들은 계속 행진 해 각료회의장이 보이는 카고 핸들링 에어리어에 도착했다. 집회 참석자들은 이틀째 별다른 진척없이 비공식 회의만 진행하고 있는 제 6차 WTO 각료회의를 규탄하며 GATS협상 및 서비스시장 개방을 반대하는 내용이 담긴 항의서한을 전달하기 위해 컨벤션 센터로 진입을 시도했다.







과정에서 다시 길을 막아선 경찰들과의 몸싸움이 벌어졌고 경찰은 최루액을 눈에 직접 뿌려가며 집회 참석자들을 강제 해산시키려 했다. 이미 어제(13일) 집회에서 강력한 홍콩경찰의 최루액을 경험한 집회참석자들은 랩으로 눈을 가리며 경찰의 대응에 맞섰으나 병력을 증원시켜 막아서는 경찰들을 넘어서기는 쉽지는 않았다.

양경규 민주노총 참가 단장은 항의서한을 찢으며 규탄의 목소리를 높이기도 했다. 또한 이날 집회는 곳곳에서는 최루액을 맞은 사람들을 씻어주는 상황이 곳곳에서 연출됐다.

집회 참석자들은 항의서한 전달은 못했으나, 홍콩 시민 선전전을 진행하며 다시 빅토리아 파크로 이동, 1시 40분 경 마무리 집회를 했다. 이후 민중투쟁단은 2시 30분 경 아시아민중 결의 대회에 결합했다.

한편 이날 최루액을 맞은 집회상황이 한국 TV를 통해 방송되면서 많은 참가단들은이 '집에서 전화를 받았다', '집사람이 내가 눈에 문제가 생긴줄 알더라', '주변 사람들이 걱정이 많다' 라는 등 걱정하는 분위기를 전했다.
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    http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1E8890B2-AB89-4C2E-86C6-D2F63D99B28D.htm

    Scuffles and deadlock at WTO summit

    Wednesday 14 December 2005, 10:16 Makka Time, 7:16 GMT

    Nearly 10,000 demonstrators have travelled to Hong Kong

    Against a backdrop of violent clashes between police and South Korean protesters, delegates to the WTO summit in Hong Kong have continued talks to break a deadlock over world commerce.

    About 50 Koreans, many of them farmers bitterly opposed to the liberalisation of their country's rice market, clashed with police on Wednesday. They were forced back by blasts of pepper spray as they charged the front line of 200 officers in riot gear.

    The violence follows Tuesday's clashes which left at least nine people injured when the talks got under way as a peaceful march of anti-globalisation protesters, again mostly South Koreans, scuffled with police at the end of the march .

    Those clashing with police on Wednesday were outnumbered, almost three to one, by press photographers and journalists.

    The Hong Kong media has given near blanket coverage to a group of about 1500 Korean farmers since their arrival in the territory for the WTO talks, and has published numerous stories warning of violence.

    However, the large majority of the 10,000 anti-globalisation protesters that are in Hong Kong have voiced their anger peacefully.

    Global formula

    The scuffles come as the US warned ministers from the WTO's 149 members that the world would slip back into protectionism without progress in global talks to reform world comemrce.

    US Trade Representative Rob Portman called in particular on the European Union to agree on a "global formula" for opening government-protected agricultural markets.

    Rob Portman: We move forward
    or we risk moving backwards
    "I believe either we move forward or we risk moving backward towards protectionism that will stunt economic growth and harm the developing world most," Portman told the conference.

    Portman announced that Washington would double aid-for-trade grants to developing countries to $2.7 billion a year by 2010.

    That followed a pledge last week from Japan to provide $10 billion to help poor nations with infrastructure to bolster their ability to export, and an agreement by EU states to raise spending on trade-related aid to 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) a year.

    EU trade chief Peter Mandelson, blamed by many for
    holding up the talks amid EU refusal to further cut farm
    tariffs and subsidies, told delegates the world could not afford to wait any longer to wrap up the so-called Doha round of talks, originally meant to conclude by 2004.

    But he said the WTO's members would not reach that goal
    unless negotiations moved away from the sensitive topic of
    farm trade and strove to cut trade barriers on industrial
    goods and services.

    Finishing line

    "We will not succeed, in Hong Kong or after, if we continue to focus on only one part of the round," Mandelson said.

    "We cannot afford to wait again. When the finishing line is in sight, it is the time to quicken our pace."

    Mandelson urged delegates that
    it is 'time to quicken our pace'

    The December 13-18 meeting was meant to draw up an outline for a global treaty by the end of 2006 to lower or eliminate trade barriers in agriculture, manufacturing and services.

    Talks have been hampered amid accusations from poorer countries that the European Union, the US, Japan and other wealthy countries are offering insufficient cuts to their agricultural import tariffs and farm subsidies.

    Portman also pressed negotiators not to leave Hong Kong
    without setting a date for another meeting early next year
    with the goal of setting up a framework to complete the
    talks.

    "Although we may not achieve all we had hoped for this
    week, let us set another deadline to keep the pressure
    on," Portman said.

    Agencies

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