It is to our advantage that Philippine negotiators did not take any strong position [on mode IV]; we have no advantage so why open it up?

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What other countries like India want is to liberalize [mode IV to include] other workers in general, but if you open that up, competition will become bigger, from India, from Eastern Europe.

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In the first place, our people are already all over the world long before GATS [was framed]. On the other hand there is demand on so many countries for Filipino workers, from the highly skilled to the level of limited skills.

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