Both groups use the commercial shipping lines of the Indian Ocean.

Mr. Bamanga Tukur, Executive President, African Business Roundtable, and Chairman, NEPAD Business Group

It is common practice for commercial ventures to operate through groups of companies and for each company in the group to have a separate legal personality.

Essentially, the BCM would be built around two focal points, one in the business and industry constituency and one in the secretariat.

Entrepreneurial groups, chambers of commerce and associations of manufacturers must become actively involved in industrial policy formulation and implementation.

Export consortia.

These folks are the moneyed interests in Iran, the bankers, the oil people, the bazaaries.

Consensus among the groups is consensus among their members, who are all members of the same Conference on Disarmament.

That is why national business groups conglomerates often play a key role in transforming an economy and its exports. This is especially true in developing counties, where many markets are missing and the business environment is often extremely challenging.

Informal consultations convened by delegations

Such networks could be co sponsored by central or local governments, business associations or parastatals. Assisting enterprises

Members of the Alliance for Global Business are Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG), and World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA).

UNDG is working on final draft Consultative Committee on Programme and Operational Questions (CCPOQ) guidelines on common services (to be presented to CCPOQ in September 1998).

Our experience with group consultations is that they are extremely valuable.

The business and industry constituency, which also includes private sector financial institutions, has reached a consensus in favour of the improvement of current consultation mechanisms with Parties through the establishment of a quot Business Consultative Mechanism quot (BCM).

The local criminal groups consist of two distinct groups of traders and smugglers.

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To that end, consultations with those groups would be useful.

The measures are being implemented within the framework of UNDG and in close coordination with the ACC Consultative Committee on Programme and Operational Questions (CCPOQ).

a) The creation of small scale business groups, focusing on small shops

There are also cases in which terrorist groups act as suppliers for organized criminal groups.

26. Commercial communications costs

The Chairperson announced that, following earlier informal consultations, it had been agreed that the officers of the meeting would consist of 15 vice chairpersons three from each of the five regional groups.

8. The expert from Japan reported on the establishment in 1995 of a Cyber Business Association which aims at the promotion of electronic commerce and cyber business in cooperation with the European Union, the APEC countries and the G.7 countries.

The Group of 21, for its part, has also been engaged on this issue and has held intensive consultations within the Group and without the Group consultations which, of course, do continue.

The WTC group in Kabul has been training women to teach literacy and basic business skills.

Both the environmental and the business and industry constituencies have urged broader participation of different economic interests, which could benefit the Convention and its implementation.

They're in a joint venture with Sumitomo.

Increase the sectoral coverage and integrate enterprise groups into the business registers (registration of links between international enterprise groups is also planned)

Signers include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the European Services Forum and groups from Japan, Korea and Mexico.

May I say then, if it is possible, perhaps our group could stay in this room, since it is a larger group, for consultations.

They are significant to international trade and commerce with respect to, for example, the formation of overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures to manufacture, market and license products.

In coordination with a broadly based group known as the Alliance for Global Business (AGB) the ICC annually updates the Global Action Plan for electronic business (GAP) which is a global reference document that records base policy positions of many business groups and serves as one single interface on all policy issues relating to, inter alia, electronic business that is being dealt with at national and intergovernmental levels.

The G 8 countries have agreed on substantial debt relief for a number of countries.

So we looked in that this was a commercial chemistry set.

62. In another round of consultations, the Chairman prepared a draft which he shared with the representatives of regional groups and others.

62. In another round of consultations, the Chairman prepared a draft that he shared with the representatives of regional groups and others.

A few NGOs from the business and industry constituency specifically stressed the need to encourage the participation of all sectors of business, industry, labour and agriculture from both Annex I and non Annex I Parties.

5. The spokesman for the Asian Group (Nepal) said that the Group had taken part in the informal consultations in a spirit of accommodation and compromise and with a view to reaching a consensus.

Forthcoming informal consultations convened by delegations

The following reflects the consensus views of the Group of 77 on this issue.

An organization called the Groupement vocation coopérative (GVC) provides oversight of the diamond production.

While it is not clear what information was exchanged by the consortium and the supplier, a breach of confidentiality by the consortium cannot be excluded.

Charoen Pokphand, a domestic conglomerate that formerly focused on agribusiness, has expanded its business internationally with investments to such countries as China and Indonesia.

(c) The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is a farmer funded national umbrella organization representing provincial general farm organizations and national commodity groups.