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ICC
Executive Board meets to set business priorities
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Chairman Jean-René Fourtou |
Paris,
5 March 2004
- ICC's Executive Board convened here today bringing together business
leaders from all over the world to set the next priorities for the world
business organization.
ICC Chairman Jean-René
Fourtou used the meeting to establish the themes to be addressed in ICC's
annual presentation to the Summit of G8 leaders meeting in Georgia, USA
in June.
The top business executives
agreed to stress to the heads of state and government participating in
the G8 Summit the importance of multilateral rules to manage and strengthen
the global economy. They insisted that governments must remain committed
to the completion of the Doha round of trade negotiations.
ICC will promote these
key messages to G8 leaders during its forthcoming World Congress in Marrakesh
(6-9 June), which will be drawing to a close as the G8 Summit opens.
Today's meeting also
heard from French Institute for International Relations Senior Adviser
Dominique Moïsi as guest speaker.
In an address on "Europe
after enlargement: the implications for business worldwide", Mr Moïsi
said that business should not fear European enlargement but rather should
be concerned with the "broader breakdown of civilized rule of law
in international trade relations".
ICC's Executive Board
comprises leading business figures from more than 20 countries. Today's
meeting attracted top-ranking executives from as far afield as Brazil,
Canada, China, Egypt, India, Korea, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand,
Turkey, the USA and as well as many European countries.
Mr Fourtou was joined
at the meeting by fellow members of the three-member ICC Chairmanship,
Yong Sung Park (Korea) and Richard D. McCormick (United States).
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