The history of the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI)

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Global Giants: Fears of the Supranational: Journal of Commerce, 23 April 1997. The MAI pact being developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) meeting in Paris.
NAFTA on crack: By Gabriel Roth, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, 15 October 1997.
Exceptions, Derogations and National Reservations: By Marinus Sikkel, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands. Symposium on the MAI, 20 October 1997—Cairo, Egypt.
Ten Reasons to be Concerned About The Multilateral Agreement on Investment: By Andrea Durbin, Friends of the Earth, 25 November 1997.
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment: By Paul Hellyer, 25 November 1997. Notes for an address by the Hon. Paul Hellyer to the Sub-Committee on International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario.
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment: An international human rights crisis: By Ward Morehouse, Co-Director, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, 2 December 1997.
Treaty would give big business more influence: By R.C. Longworth, the Chicago Tribune, 4 December 1997.
Paul Hellyer, The Evil Empire: Globalization's darker side (ann.): Publication announcement of a book by a former Canadian cabinet minister, 9 December 1997.
Investment deal a threat to our economic nationalism: By Richard Gwyn, Citizens Democratic Watch, 30 December 1997.
The MAI: Making the world safe for corporate criminals: By Shawn Ewald, 4 January 1998.
US shies away from multilateral accord: By Nancy Dunne, in Financial Times, 14 February 1998.
Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Makere Harawira, Letter to the Newsroom Editor, 15 February 1998. A Maori perspective on the rationale for the US refusal to sign the MAI draft in its present state.
The MAI—insult plus injury to developing nations: By Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network, 4 March 1998.
Examining the MAI—Who wants corporate rule?: By Aaron Koleszar, in The Guardian (Charlottetown), 13 March 1998. Focus is the gasoline additive MMT in Canada. Letter to the editor and Ethyl Corp.'s response.
MAI would be in conflict with peremptory norms of general international law and thus be null and void: By Joan Russow, National Leader of the Green Party of Canada, 14 March 1998.