ANTIGUA'S FINANCE MINISTER HEADED TO WASHINGTON
AGAIN (Update)
16 January 2009
Yet another meeting with US trade officials on
World Trade Organisation dispute
Antigua's Finance Minister, Dr. Errol Cort must be
racking up the airmiles on the Caribbean government's
continuing World Trade Organisation dispute over online
gambling with the United States. The peripatetic
minister apparently flew to Washington again this week
for further talks with the US Trade Representative,
reports the Antigua Sun.
The Minister told an Antigua Sun reporter that he would
additionally be meeting with senior officials in the US
Justice Department in yet another last attempt to find
an amicable resolution in the Internet gaming
confrontation between the two nations, which so far
Antigua has won convincingly in a series of Dispute
Panel decisions, causing the Americans to withdraw their
gambling obligations from GATT, thus incurring
penalties.
The newspaper reports that Dr. Cort is still optimistic,
saying: "We’ve been holding discussions and negotiations
over many months; I believe that we’ve reached a point
where we might be able to conclude these negotiations.”
When asked what the course of action would be if an
agreement was not reached, Dr. Cort opined, “If there is
no resolution, then it means that the matter will go
over into a new administration under the US presidency
of Barack Obama.”
According to Cort, the discussions would then have to be
restarted. “These discussions would have been held over
all of these months under a Republican administration
and if we go into a new {Democrat] administration it
will be new players…we will virtually need to start from
scratch,” the Finance Minister said.
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