SECRETARY-GENERAL CONVENES SUMMIT WITH CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, NGOS AND LABOUR AT HEADQUARTERS ON 24 JUNE

Secretary-General convenes summit with Chief Executive Officers,

NGOs and Labour at headquarters on 24 june

NEW YORK, 22 June -- More than 400 Chief Executive Officers and representatives of international civil society will discuss a range of issues key to corporate leadership and responsibility at a meeting called by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to take place at United Nations Headquarters on 24 June.

Corporate leaders, representatives of international civil society and labour organizations, who are participating in the Secretary-General’s “Global Compact” with business, will discuss:

-- How universal standards on environment, labour and human rights relate to the role of businesses in a period of rapid globalization and rising international tensions;

-- The relation between corporate responsibility and profitability, and how investment institutions and rating agencies should take it into account;

-- Establishing effective cross-communication with organized labour and civil society.

New voluntary initiatives by individual firms or business associations will be announced at the one-day Global Compact Leaders Summit, chaired by Secretary-General Annan.

The Secretary-General will announce the addition of anti-corruption as one of the core principles of the Compact, along with support for the environment, labour standards and human rights; a statement will be made by United Nations Under-Secretary-General Catherine Bertini on incorporating these principles into the administration of the Organization system-wide; there will be a statement of support for Global Compact principles from several national stock exchanges; and a major initiative by the world’s leading financial institutions will be announced.

In recognition of the overlapping goals and problems of business and governments, the 24 June meeting will also be attended by more than a dozen national ministers, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil will deliver the keynote luncheon address.

United Nations officials project that the Summit will be the largest gathering ever on corporate social responsibility issues, and perhaps the most important to bring together business, labour, civil society and government.

Taking place four years since the founding Global Compact convocation, the Summit marks the growth of the initiative from slightly more than 50 participating firms and organizations in July 2000 to nearly 1,500 now.

For more information and to obtain media credentials, visit unglobalcompactsummit.org/media.shtml.

For background briefing or to make interview requests, please contact:  Gavin Power, tel.:  1 212 963 681, e-mail:  powerg@un.org; or Matthias Stausberg, tel.:  1 917 367 3423, e-mail:  stausberg@un.org, Global Compact Office; or Renata Sivacolundhu, tel.:  1 212 963 2932, e-mail:  sivacolundhu@un.org; or Tim Wall, tel.:  1 212 963 5851, e-mail:  wallt@un.org, United Nations Department of Public Information.

Selected List of Confirmed Participants Sorted by Country

Currently over 400 people have registered to the Summit, this represents an excerpt from the full list, which will be posted on the website closer to the Summit.

Name of Organization	Participant	Position	Country
ES Group	Jack Smorgon AM	Chairman	Australia
Westpac Banking Corporation	Leon Davis	Chairman	Australia
Aluminum Bahrain (Alba)	Bruce Hall	Chief Executive	Bahrain
European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)	Alain de Dommartin	Chief Executive Officer	Belgium
European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)	Gerard Van Schaik	President	Belgium
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Union (ICEM)	Fred Higgs	General Secretary	Belgium
Aracruz Celulose S.A.	Carlos Augusto Aguiar	Chief Executive Officer	Brazil
Banco do Brasil	Cassio Casseb	President	Brazil
Bovespa-Bolsa de Valores do Estado de São Paulo SA	Raymundo Magliano Filho	Chairman of the Board	Brazil
Caixa Economica Federal	Jorge Mattoso	President	Brazil
Grupo Pao de Acucar	Hugo Bethlem	Executive Director	Brazil
Instituto Ethos	Oded Grajew	President	Brazil
Petrobras SA	Jose Eduardo Dutra	President	Brazil
Natura Cosmeticos S/A	Guilherme Leal	Chief Executive Officer	Brazil
Nutrimental S/A Ind. E Com. De Alimentos	Rodrigo Loures	Director Superintendente	Brazil
TNT Bulgaria Ltd.	Ivan Vassilev	Country General Manager	Bulgaria
Alcan Inc.	Milton Wong	Board Member	Canada
Hudson’s Bay Company	George Heller	President & Chief Executive Officer	Canada
Nexen Inc.	Charles Fischer	President & Chief Executive Officer	Canada
Placer Dome Inc.	Jay Taylor	President & Chief Executive Officer	Canada
Talisman Energy Inc.	James Buckee	President & Chief Executive Officer	Canada
BancodelEstado de Chile	Jaime Estevez	Chairman	Chile
Beijing Capital Group Co. Ltd.	Xiaoguang Liu	President & Chief Executive Officer	China
China Society for the Promotion of the Guangcai Program	Hu Deping	Secretary-General	China
Junayao Group	Wang Junyao	Chairman	China
Aarhus United A/S	Erik Hojsholt	Chief Executive Officer	Denmark
Lego A/S	Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen	President & Chief Executive Officer	Denmark
The Copenhagen Centre for Social Responsibility Partnerships	Jette Steen Knudsen	Director	Denmark
Mansour Manufacturing & Distribution Group of Companies	Youssef Mansour	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	Egypt
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization	Talal Abu-Ghazaleh	Chairman & Chief Executive Officer	Egypt
Agence Française de Developpement	Jean-Michel Severino	Directeur General	France
Caisse Nationale des Caisses D’Epargne et de Prévoyance	Bruno Mettling	Member of the Executive Committee	France
Institut de l'entreprise	Jean-Pierre Boisivon	Délégué Général	France
International Chamber of Commerce	Maria Livanos Cattaui	Secretary General	France
Lafarge	Bertrand Collomb	Chief Executive Officer	France
Schneider Electric Industries, SAS	Henri Lachmann	Chairman/Chief Executive Officer	France
Societé Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF)	Louis Gallois	President	France
Suez	Gerard Mestrallet	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	France
Veolia Environnment (ex Vivendi)	John-Pierre Tardieu	Member of the Board	France
Deutsche Bank	Tessen von Heydebreck	Member of the Board	Germany
Henkel KgaA	Ulrich Lehner	Chairman of the Executive Board/Chief Executive Officer	Germany
RWE Aktiengesellschaf	Harry Roels	Chief Executive Officer	Germany
Siemens AG	Klaus Kleinfeld	Member of the Management Board	Germany
Transparency International	Peter Eigen	Chairman	Germany
Volkswagen AG	Hans Dieter Poetsch	Board Member	Germany
Ashanti Goldfields Co. Ltd.	Sam Jonah	Chief Executive Officer	Ghana
Amazon Caribbean Guyana Ltd.	Xavier Richard	Corporate Secretary	Guyana
National Thermal Power	Chandra Prakash Jain	Chairman & Managing Director	India
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.	Subir Raha	Chairman and Managing Director	India
Punjab National Bank	Kohli Surinder Singh	Chairman and Managing Director	India
Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd.	B. Muthuraman	Managing Director	India
Martha Tilaar Group/PT Martina Berto	Dr. Martha Tilaar	Founder/Chairwoman	Indonesia
Sakaguchi E.H. VOC Corporation	Mayumi Hachiya	Director	Japan
TPG N.V.	Peter Bakker	Chief Executive Officer	Netherlands
KLP Insurance	Bjorn Kristoffersen	Chief Executive Officer	Norway
Norsk Hydro ASA	Eivind Reiten	President & Chief Executive Officer	Norway
Storebrand ASA	Espen Klitzing	Chief Executive Officer, Storebrand Life Insurance	Norway
Seri Sugar Mills Ltd	Ashraf Tabani	Chairman	Pakistan
Autoridad del Canal de Panama	Alberto Aleman Zubieta	Administrator	Panama
Acer/Chimes Ent.	Salvador Poserio	Chief Executive Officer	Philippines
Mabuhay Vinyl Corporation	Edwin LL. Umali	President & Chief Operating Officer	Philippines
Banco Espirito Santo	Mario Amaral	Executive Board Member	Portugal
EDP-Electricidade de Portugal, SA	Francisco La Fuente Sanchez	Chairman	Portugal
Fundação Oriente	Carlos Monjardino	Chairman of the Board of Directors	Portugal
Lusotur, S.A.	Andre Jordan	Chairman	Portugal
Eskom	Thulani Gcabshe	Chief Executive	South Africa
INDITEX, S.A.	Jose Maria Castellano	Chief Executive Officer	Spain
Mango MNG Holding S.L. (Grupo Mango)	Nicolas Olive	General Management	Spain
Telefonica	Cesar Alierta Izuel	President	Spain
Commercial Bank of Ceylon Limited	Armitha Gooneratne	Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer	Sri Lanka
MAS Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd.	Mahesh Amalean	Chairman	Sri Lanka
Folksam	Tore Andersson	Chief Executive Officer	Sweden
LM Ericsson	Carl-Henric Svanberg	President & Chief Executive Officer	Sweden
Volvo Car Corporation	Hans Olov Olsson	President & Chief Executive Officer	Sweden
Credit Suisse Group	Walter Kielholz	Chairman of the Board of Directors	Switzerland
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)	Gilles Carbonnier	Head, Private sector Relations, Directorate General	Switzerland
IUCN-The World Conservation Union	Achim Steiner	Director General	Switzerland
Novartis AG	Daniel Vasella	Chairman & Chief Executive Officer	Switzerland
UBS AG	Marcel Ospel	Chairman	Switzerland
Union Network International	Philip J. Jennings	General Secretary	Switzerland
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)	Bjorn Stigson	President	Switzerland
WWF International	Claude Martin	Director General	Switzerland
Ostim OSB	Orhan Aydyn	Chief Executive Officer	Turkey
Aarhus United A/S	Ian McIntosh	Managing Director	UK
Amnesty International	Irene Khan	Secretary-General	UK
BP plc	Lord John Gordon Browne of Madingley	Group Chief Executive	UK
Global Witness	Simon Taylor	Director	UK
International Alert	Dan Smith	Secretary-General	UK
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)	Camilla Toulmin	Director	UK
International Save the Children Alliance	Burkhard Gnaerig	Chief Executive Officer	UK
Pentland Group plc	R Stephen Rubin	Chairman	UK
Pranda Jewelry Public Company Ltd.	Pranda Tiasuwan	Chairman	Thailand
Rio Tinto plc	Paul Skinner	Chairman	UK
Royal Dutch Shell	Jeroen van der Veer	Chairman	UK
Standard Chartered PLC	Jame McCabe	Chief Executive Officer for the Americas	UK
The BOC Group	Tony Isaac	Chief Executive Officer	UK
The Prince of Wales - International Business Leaders Forum	Robert Davies	Chief Executive Officer	UK
Aspen ISIB	Judith Samuelson	Executive Director	USA
Business for Social Responsibility	Aron Cramer	President & Chief Executive Officer	USA
Calvert Group	Barbara Krumsiek	President & Chief Executive Officer	USA
Gap, Inc.	Anne B. Gust	Chief Administrative Officer	USA
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS	Richard Holbrooke	President & Chief Executive Officer	USA
Global Reporting Initiative	Ernst Ligteringen	Chief Executive	USA
GreenMountain Coffee	Robert Stiller	President and Chief Executive Officer	USA
Goldmann Sachs	Suzanne Nora Johnson	Managing Director	USA
Hasbro	Alan G. Hassenfeld	Chairman	USA
Human Rights First	Michael Posner	Executive Director	USA
Ketchum	Raymond Kotcher	Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer	USA
Lazare Kaplan International Inc.	Maurice Tempelsman	Chairman	USA
Li & FungUSA	Richard Darling	President	USA
Pfizer, Inc.	Henry McKinnell	Chief Executive Officer	USA
Starbucks Coffee Company	Orin Smith	Chief Executive Officer	USA
World Monitors Inc.	Scott Greathead	Chief Executive Officer	USA
UN Senior Officials
United Nations Secretariat	Kofi Annan	Secretary-General	USA
United Nations Secretariat	Louise Fréchette	Deputy Secretary-General	USA
United Nations Industrial Development Org, (UNIDO)	Carlos Magariños	Director-General	Austria
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)	Antonio Maria Costa	Executive Director	Austria
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)	Klaus Toepfer	Executive Director	Kenya
International Labor Organization (ILO)	Juan Somavia	Director General	Switzerland
International Finance Corporation (IFC)	Peter L. Woicke	Executive Vice President	USA
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	Mark Malloch Brown	Administrator	USA
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights	Louise Arbour	High Commissioner	Switzerland
Selected government officials
Brazil	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	President
Brazil	Celso Amorim	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dominican Republic	Leonel Fernandez	President-elect
Sweden	Leif Pagrotsky	Minister of Industry and Trade
European Union	Odile Quintin	Director General, Corporate Social Responsibility Division of DG Employment & Social Affairs
United Kingdom	Stephen Timms	Minister for Energy, e-Commerce and Postal Services
Switzerland	Micheline Calmy-Rey	Minister of Foreign Affairs

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