The real question should have been why it would be legal to write their customer agreements in such

Last week published the Swedish daily an interview with TeliaSonera's personnel director Karin Eliasson who speaks warmly of the young talents who are looking for work at the company in Central Asia. It confirms the goods what I thought about this when you started looking at TeliaSonera mutaffärer in Uzbekistan, which later led to the CEO's departure: "Countries such as Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the goods Uzbekistan and Tajikistan account for 18 percent of sales but 43 percent of income."
A consequence of that we have the market exposed Telia by deregulation in the 1990s and the transition to a limited company is that Telia's statutory mission is to satisfy its shareholders and creditors' interests. It is difficult to see where the company TeliaSonera could expand beyond Central Asia. The old European monopoly law has divided the market between them, and there are few large markets that have not already been exploited. Although TeliaSonera quickly got into the Baltic region is the theoretical end-markets small. All of Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries offers maximum total around 20 million potential end users. the goods In Germany there are 80 million potential end users, in Spain 55 million and France 60 million, but the markets are inaccessible to Telia - partly because of European telecoms legislation. the goods It is difficult to see exactly where further expansion is possible except in Central Asia. It is also difficult to see how to handle such a broken system that the Central Asian without committing any form of bribery - their administrations do not work at all.
The other politicians than I have estimated that investment in Central Asia is necessary confirmed in an interview with Mats Odell from 2010. He then said that "these countries we are talking about is a way to risky investments but it is worthwhile investments in the way that they contribute to development the goods and by providing a very good return for TeliaSonera's shareholders. / ... / It is important to me is that TeliaSonera follows the rules that exist for investment. "
Although the goods the share capital purposes seems to be little reason to upset over Telia's movements in Central Asia have SVT Commissions Review, which revealed muthärvan, actually raised a concern with far less negative consequences for Telia but actually the goods has a much larger solution space. Last spring, drove Commissions Review a one-hour program on TeliaSonera's cooperation with hardline regimes to identify and monitor dissidents. Telia's top management said that Telia's customer contracts comply with applicable the goods law. It meant an Uzbek human rights activist was a weak excuse. Then, looking up to Telia's press officer, who reiterated that customer agreements are in accordance with applicable law.
The real question should have been why it would be legal to write their customer agreements in such a way that people are likely to be omitted for dictatorial regimes to torture or sudden death. But the question the goods should not be directed to either the CEO or Telia Telia's press officer, but to Annie Loof - responsible minister in Sweden for telecommunications policy. How does the Ministry of Industry the goods on this fact and has no ongoing the goods investigative work on how to avoid TeliaSonera forced guilty of complicity in torture.
The fact that over a one hour program instead repeatedly ask Telia and TeliaSonera follows the goods the law is a waste of time. Presumably, we are all pleased that TeliaSonera follows the goods the law, and do not expect them to do anything else. We also expect that they will comply with the Companies Act and related capital rules. We have not given TeliaSonera no obligations the goods to uphold the rule of law and human rights. There are no penalties for companies that do not uphold the rule of law and human rights. The obligation to uphold human rights and the rule of law is on nation-states, such as Sweden, and their governments. If we want to know that we are not supervised by an alien regime via TeliaSonera, we need to make laws in Sweden that makes it more expensive and difficult for Telia to monitor us on the regime's behalf, than not to.
A major problem the goods with making the moral contemplation of Uzbek regime critics' life and health that Telia's responsibility, then, that there is Telia's responsibility. In this case also linked moral considerations from decision makers and politicians with real power can do to those who have the power and resources to take action - those who write the law - not held accountable for actions that promote human rights as they fail to perform . Actions that we as citizens and human beings morally think they should do and expect (or maybe not, for that matter?). We have no information about what our politicians actually understand that they can and are willing to do, which also means that we do not participate in a sensible way in democratic elections. Morality Bortko