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What does MAI stand for?

Multilateral Agreement on Investment


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He explains how current treaties and petroleum agreements protect foreign investments and how those laws are administered, and critically analyzes the process of regulating foreign investment by means of a multilateral agreement on investment from the perspective of a developing country, recommending reforms to such agreements that better balance the needs of capital-exporting and -importing countries.
By creating and manipulating the American 'empire', European Union, African Union, United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, the multilateral agreement on investment, the International Monetary Fund, the G/7, G/8 Summits, as well as individual governments, the Illuminati have manipulated their bloodline 'insiders' in to all the major positions of power in government, banking, media, business, religion, and military in every key country on earth.
First it was the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
A growing international coalition of religious leaders, unions, and environmental and consumer activists shook the international investment community to its foundation by putting a halt to secret negotiations over the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
The goal of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment being the primacy of investors above the true wealth of nations, which is the welfare of the people and the stewardship of their natural resources, what little real independence will remain for nations should the coming international talks at Seattle succeed in achieving this goal?
Thanks to massive opposition by people from around the world, the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), scheduled for April 1998, is all but dead.
Japanese sources said the proposed treaty is expected to encompass aspects of ongoing negotiations for a multilateral agreement on investment under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based club of industrial nations.
A similar attempt to create such protective rules by the two and other member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) failed last December, when some OECD members rejected the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI).

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