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Antigua Faces Sisyphean Task on Online Gambling Talks
WASHINGTON, D.C. --
With the change in US Presidential administrations, the the nation of Antigua and Barbuda faces starting anew the long and tiring task of attempting to settle the $21 million annual debt owed it by the US for blocking online casinos in violation of international trade treaties.
Just days ago, Antigua's Finance Minister, Dr. Errol Cort, flew to Washington in a last-ditch effort to resolve the ongoing dispute over Internet gambling. Cort has conducted talks for over a year now, patiently working past the US ignoring World Trade Organization deadlines and rude and insulting treatment by the office of US Trade Representative Susan Schwab.
But no result was forthcoming, as the Bush administration apparently had time to force the finalization of UIGEA rules continuing the country's trade violations against the online casino industry, but not enough time to pay a pittance to a poor country awarded damages by the WTO. Now Cort faces beginning again, with Obama administration officials.
Cort notes that the concessions offered by the USTR have been of no use to his country. Meanwhile, Antigua attempts to borrow a sum roughly equivalent to what it is owed so as to sustain its economy, shattered by the terrible triumvirate of hurricanes, recession, and illegal US protectionism.
So Cort, like Sisyphus, puts his shoulder to the boulder and prepares to inch it back up the hill. The only good news for Antigua is that the new administration may be more concerned with following international law than the previous.
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