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Thursday July 19, 2001
Canada: Prime Minister Jean Chretian
France: President Jacques Chirac
Germany: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
Italy: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Japan: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Russia: President Putin
United Kingdom: Prime Minister Tony Blair
United States of America: President George
Bush
Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, The
Displaced
While thousands of protesters
have massed in Genoa for the first in a series of demonstrations against the 27th
annual economic summit which begins in the city on Friday the first of these marches is
dedicated to issues concerning refugees and immigrants.
Although apart from Russia, the seven richest
countries of the world do not have the problem of their people seeking asylum or enforced
immigration but as host nations, they face the difficulties of dealing with its related
problems.
If we accept that the pain of seeking asylum or
enforced immigration is a catastrophic one and the reasons for leaving one's home is
usually unsafe circumstances, the refugees only have the one choice of coming to the
countries that in their opinion will provide them with refuge. This in turn threatens the
safe social structure of the host countries. So far, a logical solution to this problem
has not been reached. This is simply because the real reason
behind this misery is hidden in the economic benefits of the richest countries in the
world.
 | The economic benefits of the most
prosperous countries are in having a suitable market. Their most suitable market lies in
the third world and developing countries that export refugees. It seems that the only way
of maintaining these suitable markets is in backing the leaders who can best serve this
purpose.
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 | In discussing the troubled world economy
and improvements to global trade, should you not consider the globalization of human
rights values? Should you not act more responsibly and set an ethical policy for your
trade developments?
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You must evaluate
the human costs to these oppressed nations and reassess your approach.
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