CLARIFICATION of United Nations Press Release.News Editors/Business Editors/Political Writers CLARIFICATION by...United Nations NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004 United Nations wishes to issue the following clarification to its release, BW5262, (NY-UNITED-NATIONS) "U.N. Officials to Provide Briefing on Global Compact and Upcoming ``Leaders Summit''; McKinsey Report to Be Released" issued earlier Tuesday. United Nations Secretary-General The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations. Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. will convene CONVENE, civil law. This is a technical term, signifying to bring an action. the Global Compact Business Leaders Summit at U.N. Headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The Summit will be the largest gathering ever of CEOs, government officials and leaders of civil society on the topic of global corporate responsibility. Approximately 400 participants will attend the one-day Summit, including hundreds of chief executive officers and senior executives of major international corporations. President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva sil·va also syl·va n. pl. sil·vas or sil·vae 1. The trees or forests of a region. 2. A written work on the trees or forests of a region. of Brazil will deliver the keynote luncheon address. Following is the release in its entirety: ADVANCE BRIEFING: UPCOMING BUSINESS LEADERS SUMMIT AT UNITED NATIONS On 9 June 2004, senior United Nations officials will hold a press briefing (11:15 a.m.) at U.N. Headquarters to provide an assessment of the Global Compact initiative and to discuss the upcoming Global Compact Business Leaders Summit, scheduled for 24 June. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will convene the Global Compact Business Leaders Summit at U.N. Headquarters in New York. The Summit will be the largest gathering ever of CEOs, government officials and leaders of civil society on the topic of global corporate responsibility. Approximately 400 participants will attend the one-day Summit, including hundreds of chief executive officers and senior executives of major international corporations. President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil will deliver the keynote luncheon address. At the 9 June briefing, John Ruggie John G. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, and Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. , Special Advisor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Global Compact, and Georg Kell, Executive Head of the Global Compact, will discuss the evolution, growth and impact of the Global Compact since its launch in July 2000. The press briefing will begin at 11:15 a.m. in Press Briefing Room 226 at U.N. Headquarters. Also at the briefing, Messrs. Ruggie and Kell will officially release a comprehensive report on the Global Compact recently completed by McKinsey & Company, the international management consultancy. Les Silverman, a Director at McKinsey and leader of McKinsey's Nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Practice, will also appear at the press briefing. Media representatives who are interested in attending the briefing and who do not possess U.N. press credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. should contact Gavin Power at 212-963-4681, powerg@un.org. |
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