The project was perceived – rightly so – as amounting to a surrender of sovereignty, because it introduced a rigid principle of non-discrimination between foreign and local companies that would eliminate the host country’s room for maneuver without offering anything in return.
Le projet apparaissait, non sans raison, comme une atteinte à la souveraineté des Etats: il instaurait un principe rigide de non-discrimination entre entreprises étrangères et locales, abolissant les marges de manœuvre des pays récepteurs sans contrepartie.