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Improvement in commodity agreements
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A recent study has nothing good to the agreements with Mongolia and Kazakhstan commodity agreements. "A useful resource to foreign policy as not reach the West", also criticized Green politician Reinhard Bütikofer.
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In October last year, the federal government signed a so-called commodity bilateral partnership agreement with Mongolia. And since you can not stand on one leg, can a second commodity agreements with the Republic of Kazakhstan was followed in February 2012. True to the motto: If China does not want bad luck.
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The aim of the agreement is the supply of German industry with the necessary raw materials. In return, the two partners Kazakhstan and Mongolia to benefit economically and socially. A good approach: ThyssenKrupp gets the iron ore for its steel at a fair price and that its economy is flourishing.
Quite as positive as the agreement was originally intended, it does not seem to be. Says, for example, the Green Party politician and Member of the European Parliament, Reinhard Bütikofer that the contracts were unbalanced. "A strategic sense commodities foreign policy can not reach the Federal Republic on the basis of these agreements," he says.
Other agreements planned
Because not only China, but also the West - specifically the German industry - has a decent appetite for raw materials, more such partnerships are planned. "Before now, more agreements are concluded, the federal government must correct its policy," says Bütikofer. He demanded of commodity partnerships that are truly partners, a broader basis. One of Wirtschaftsvölkerrechtler Markus Krajewski FEATURED Bütikofer alternative model could imagine for further cooperation. In particular, we had such an agreement based on the following points:
Transparency
Sustainable Development
ecological degradation
Corporate Responsibility
Participation of the population
Transparency rather than secrecy
Bütikofers criticism is borne out by a recent study by Krajewski. The core of the study is that the federal government "important social, developmental, environmental and commercial aspects" disregards. And it's not the first time that the agreement is one year old now criticized with Mongolia. The general allegation is that the commodity partnership mostly use of German industry: The resource extraction is facilitated significantly, there are limits on the export it does not - only the partner countries get little of the promised counseling and support to see.
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Krajewski also requested to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology and more to ensure that the benefit of the revenues from the extractive sector of the population of the country. The keyword loud sustainability. An important clue that international transparency and sustainability standards as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). These EIAs were as much as a better citizen participation or disclosure of payment. The latter, both the European Commission and the European Parliament have indeed promoted, but the project had failed because of the German Bundesrat.