We, the undersigned participants in the Global People's Tribunal on Corporate Crimes Against Humanity, hereby issue this Citizen Arrest Warrant for the trade ministers of the Group-of Seven leading industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States) for their role as accomplices after the fact in the commission of crimes against humanity by some of the world's leading corporations.

The human rights and environmental records of five of these corporations have been examined by this Tribunal, constituted as a grand jury, and indictments issued, based upon probably cause that they have committed such crimes defined under international and Canadian law as meaning "...murder, extermination, deportation, persecution or any other inhumane act or omission that is committed against any civilian population or any identified persons...and that...constitutes a contravention of customary international law or is criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the Community of Nations" (emphasis added).

The evidence submitted to the Tribunal on these five corporations-Cargill, The Gap, Shell, Union Carbide, and Unocal-repeatedly reflected the existence of an agency relationship between major corporations and their home country governments in which government policies and actions have protected and advanced the interests of the corporations, even and often at the expense of violations of internationally recognized human rights and environmental standards. These interests have also been protected and advanced by the international trade and investment regime established and being extended by the World Trade Organization.

Hence, the issuance of this Citizen Arrest Warrant for the trade representatives of the G-7 governments as the principal officials of those governments responsible for the structuring and operations of the WTO.

Executed this 29th day of November, 1999