ICC
President receives international peace award
Geneva,
4 July 2000 - The
President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Adnan Kassar, has become
the first Arab business leader to receive the prestigious Crans Montana Foundation
Prize.
The award was made at the annual high level forum of world economic and political
leaders in the Swiss mountain resort of Crans Montana. The citation described
Mr Kassar as "an exceptional international personality who has won distinction
for his past and current actions in favour of peace and cooperation."
Mr Kassar is Chairman and
Chief Executive of the Fransabank, a leading finance and banking group, with
main offices in Lebanon, and subsidiaries in Paris, Hong Kong and Hungary. He
assumed office as ICC President on 1 January 1999.
Accepting the prize, which
is awarded annually, Mr Kassar said that throughout his life, he had done what
he could, and with all his strength and conviction, to foster exchanges of goods
and ideas between people, countries and continents.
The ICC President noted
that ICC as the world business organization, sought to link the interests of
each nation and continent with development as part of a broader vision of the
planet as a whole.
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p> "The future belongs
to man's initiative, the indispensable driving force for the creation of products
and their distribution," Mr Kassar said.
The ICC President is a leading
figure in the chamber of commerce movement in the Arab world and Mediterranean
region. He is Past Chairman and Permanent Vice Chairman of the General Union
of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Chairman of ICC Lebanon
- the ICC national committee in that country - and of the Federation of Lebanese
Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.
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