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Article: NGOs Call on Nations to Resist Tobacco Industry Interference, Strengthen Tobacco Control Treaty; 5th Round of Negotiations Begins on Framework Convention on Tobacco Control New Report Documents Tobacco Giants' Efforts to Dilute Treaty.
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- October 14, 2002
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GENEVA -- The US-based corporate accountability organization Infact and other members of the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) are calling on governments to strengthen key areas of a global treaty on tobacco during the 5th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Geneva this week.
"Having analyzed the new Chair's Text of the FCTC released in July, we are deeply concerned that it falls far short of measures necessary to reverse the global tobacco epidemic and hold tobacco transnationals accountable for the harms they cause to people, economies and the environment. For ...