Call to Argentine government to revert WTO censorship
Eng. Mauricio Macri President of the Nation We received today, with extreme concern, information from the offices of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, advising that the Argentine government has decided to deny the accreditation for the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference, to be held in Buenos Aires, of a substantial number of local and international civil society delegates, who had been accredited by the WTO in an opportune manner. This same information strongly suggests to these delegates that they not travel to Buenos Aires, as it is likely they would be denied entry into the country. We have also learned with extreme concern, of the decisions by your government to deny visas to people duly accredited by the WTO, and in other cases, to be delaying or unnecessarily complicating the processing of the same, either to participate in the Ministerial Conference or in related activities. We reject these unilateral and authoritarian measures that violate fundamental righ...