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Article: Global Compact can achieve its goals only if large companies join initiative, Secretary-General tells meeting of CEOs in Davos.
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- January 30, 2004
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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 January 2004-UN: Global Compact can achieve its goals only if large companies join initiative, Secretary-General tells meeting of CEOs in Davos(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a breakfast meeting with chief executive officers in Davos, Switzerland on 25 January:
I am delighted to be here. This meeting with CEOs in Davos has special meaning for me. It was here, five years ago, that I first proposed a Global Compact, calling on business leaders to embrace within their sphere of influence universal principles in ...