Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: La Nestle affama l'Etiopia

Nel bel mezzo di una carestia, la Nestle' chiede al governo Etiope un
"compenso" multimilionario
per qualcosa fatto da un governo PRECEDENTE (e dittatoriale) piu' di
20 anni fa.
Ed ha la faccia di dire che in fondo questo "aiuta i paesi in via di
sviluppo".
Sarebbe questa la "globalizzazione" che porta prosperita'?
Spero che gruppi di diritti umani, Noglobal, ecc. punteranno le loro
mire sulla Nestle' il piu' presto
possibile.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/2589745.stm
Nestle insists on Ethiopia refund The Swiss-based food giant, Nestle,
has defended its demand for $6m in compensation from famine-stricken
Ethiopia.
The dispute with the Ethiopian Government centres on a livestock firm
that was owned by Germany's Schweisfurth Group, a Nestle subsidiary,
before being nationalised by the former communist regime in 1975.
"I think it goes way beyond the legal case," a Nestle spokesman told
the BBC.
"I think it is in the interest of the developing countries in general
to have a continued flow of foreign direct investment."
He said it was "very important for a country like Ethiopia that people
do not fear to invest in that country".
 More than 40 governments and individuals are making claims against
the Ethiopian Government for money lost during the communist regime.
According to poverty relief organisation Oxfam, the Ethiopian
Government has offered to pay Nestle about $1.5m (£930,000) - a figure
based on the current exchange rate between the dollar and the
Ethiopian birr.
But the food giant is pushing for a payment of $6m, a sum based on the
exchange rate in force at the time of the nationalisation.
Claim condemned 
Oxfam has condemned Nestle's stance, saying there is no justification
for diverting Ethiopian Government money to a multinational which made
profits of about $3.9bn (£2.4bn) in the first six months of this year.
"This is a company that has said publicly that one of the things it
wants to do in the world is to help make poor people better off. This
is a company that is trying to squeeze out of one of the poorest
countries in the world $6m," said Oxfam's director of policy in the
UK, Justin Forsyth.
Famine fear
 Ethiopia, with average gross domestic product per person of just $100
a year, faces the prospect of its most serious famine since 1984 after
drought caused widespread crop failures earlier this year.
"The disaster we had in 1984 to1995 - the number of people involved
was roughly a third to one half of the number of people involved now.
So if that was a nightmare this will be too ghastly to contemplate,"
the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi recently told the BBC.
Government revenues have been seriously depleted by a slump in the
world price of coffee, the country's principal export.
 The World Bank's investment arm is taking part in negotiations
between Nestle and the Ethiopian officials.
"This $1m in our opinion is justifiable. But this is not the point of
view of Nestle. They are trying to get as much as they can," said a
World Bank spokesman.

 mire sulla Nestle' il piu' presto possibile.
Gia' fatto. La Nestle' e' stra-boicottata da ogni noglobal che si
rispetti.
Ciao
Ale
--
*La sconfitta reclama ad alta voce perche' esige spiegazioni; mentre la
vittoria, come la carita', nasconde un gran numero di peccati*
Alfred T. Mahan

World Bank spokesman.
Mah... Bisognerebbe sentire l'altra campana :)
-Stefano