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Un câble Wikileaks révèle que les États-Unis ont conspiré pour exercer des représailles contre les pays européens s’ils résistaient aux OGM

(NaturalNews) Wikileaks continue de secouer le monde politique en mettant en lumière les complots, la corruption, et les dissimulations. Le dernier lot de câbles diplomatiques publiés par Wikileaks révèle ce qui ne peut être caractérisé que comme une conspiration menée par les américains pour imposer les OGM aux pays européens, en faisant en sorte que ces pays paient un prix élevé en cas de résistance.

Le câble révèle les mots de Craig Stapleton, l’ambassadeur américain en France, qui poussait les intérêts commerciaux de l’industrie des biotechnologies en tentant d’imposer les OGM en France. Dans ses propres mots (ci-dessous), il exprime sa frustration à l’idée que la France pourrait adopter des lois environnementales qui entravent l’expansion des OGM:

« L’Europe recule et n’avance pas sur cette question, la France jouant un rôle de premier plan, avec l’Autriche, l’Italie, et même la Commission [européenne]… Le recours à des représailles rendra clair que la voie actuelle a un coût réel pour les intérêts européens, et pourrait aider à renforcer les voix européennes qui sont en faveur des biotechnologies. »

Vous avez pigé jusqu’ici? Ses propres paroles: « représailles » comme un moyen de « rendre clair » que résister aux OGM aura un coût.

Stapleton poursuit en déclarant une chose assez incroyable:

« Country Team Paris recommande que nous dressions une liste de cibles susceptibles de représailles causant certains dommages dans l’UE, puisqu’il s’agit d’une responsabilité collective, mais qui se concentre également en partie sur les coupables les pires. La liste doit être mesurée plutôt que vicieuse et doit être durable sur le long terme, dans la mesure où nous ne devrions pas nous attendre à une victoire rapide… »

Alors que vous relisez ces mots, rappelez-vous que ce sont là les paroles de l’ambassadeur américain en France qui suggère aux Etats-Unis de « calibrer une liste de cibles susceptibles de représailles » afin de « causer certains dommages dans l’Union européenne » qui doit être « durable sur le long terme. »

Le complot mondial des OGM n’est plus une théorie

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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
07PARIS4723	2007-12-14 16:23	2010-12-19 12:00	CONFIDENTIAL	Embassy Paris

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USTR FOR SUSAN SCHWAB

DEPARTMENT FOR E - REUBEN JEFFERY AND EB - DAN SULLIVAN

FROM AMBASSADOR STAPLETON

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/14/2017

TAGS: ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV SENV FR

SUBJECT: FRANCE AND THE WTO AG BIOTECH CASE

REF: A)PARIS 5364, B)PARIS 4255, C)PARIS 4170, D)PARIS 3970, E)PARIS

3967, F)PARIS 3853, G)PARIS 3429, H)PARIS 3399, I)PARIS 3429

Classified by Ambassador Craig Stapleton; reasons 1.4 (b), (d) and

(e).

¶1. (C) Summary: Mission Paris recommends that that the USG reinforce

our negotiating position with the EU on agricultural biotechnology by

publishing a retaliation list when the extend "Reasonable Time

Period" expires. In our view, Europe is moving backwards not

forwards on this issue with France playing a leading role, along with

Austria, Italy and even the Commission. In France, the "Grenelle"

environment process is being implemented to circumvent science-based

decisions in favor of an assessment of the "common interest."

Combined with the precautionary principle, this is a precedent with

implications far beyond MON-810 BT corn cultivation. Moving to

retaliation will make clear that the current path has real costs to

EU interests and could help strengthen European pro-biotech voices.

In fact, the pro-biotech side in France -- including within the farm

union -- have told us retaliation is the only way to begin to begin

to turn this issue in France. End Summary.

¶2. (C) This is not just a bilateral concern. France will play a

leading role in renewed European consideration of the acceptance of

agricultural biotechnology and its approach toward environmental

regulation more generally. France expects to lead EU member states

on this issue during the Slovene presidency beginning in January and

through its own Presidency in the second half of the year. Our

contacts have made clear that they will seek to expand French

national policy to a EU-wide level and they believe that they are in

the vanguard of European public opinion in turning back GMO's. They

have noted that the member states have been unwilling to support the

Commission on sanctioning Austria's illegal national ban. The GOF

sees the ten year review of the Commission's authorization of MON 810

as a key opportunity and a review of the EFSA process to take into

account societal preferences as another (reftels).

¶3. (C) One of the key outcomes of the "Grenelle" was the decision to

suspend MON 810 cultivation in France. Just as damaging is the GOF's

apparent recommitment to the "precautionary principle." Sarkozy

publicly rejected a recommendation of the Attali Commission (to

review France's competitiveness) to move away from this principle,

which was added to the French constitution under Chirac.

¶4. (C) France's new "High Authority" on agricultural biotech is

designed to roll back established science-based decision making. The

recently formed authority is divided into two colleges, a scientific

college and a second group including civil society and social

scientists to assess the "common interest" of France. The

authority's first task is to review MON 810. In the meantime,

however, the draft biotech law submitted to the National Assembly and

the Senate for urgent consideration, could make any biotech planting

impossible in practical terms. The law would make farmers and seed

companies legally liable for pollen drift and sets the stage for

inordinately large cropping distances. The publication of a registry

identifying cultivation of GMOs at the parcel level may be the most

significant measure given the propensity for activists to destroy GMO

crops in the field.

¶5. (C) Both the GOF and the Commission have suggested that their

respective actions should not alarm us since they are only

cultivation rather than import bans. We see the cultivation ban as a

first step, at least by anti-GMO advocates, who will move next to ban

or further restrict imports. (The environment minister's top aide

told us that people have a right not to buy meat raised on biotech

feed, even though she acknowledged there was no possible scientific

basis for a feed based distinction.) Further, we should not be

prepared to cede on cultivation because of our considerable planting

seed business in Europe and because farmers, once they have had

experience with biotech, become its staunchest supporters.

¶6. Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target

retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a

collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the

worst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and

must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an

early victory.

¶7. (C) President Sarkozy noted in his address in Washington to the

Joint Session of Congress that France and the United States are

"allies but not aligned." Our cooperation with France on a range of

issues should continue alongside our engagement with France and the

EU on ag biotech (and the next generation of environmental related

trade concerns.) We can manage both at the same time and should not

let one set of priorities detract from the other.

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