At Clinton Global Initiative, "he (UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-moon) called on powerful businesses like Wal-Mart to not only act for profit but also "for humanity.""
9/23/12, "Clinton calls for action at start of NYC meeting," AP, V. Dobnik
"Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday challenged Wal-Mart to open a store in Libya and help create jobs in the world's most troubled areas.
"If the new president of Libya asked you to open a store in Tripoli, would you consider it?" Clinton asked Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke at the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The annual forum brings together leaders in politics, business and philanthropy for three days of brainstorming about the most pressing global problems.
Duke was on a Clinton-mediated panel with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Queen Rania of Jordan and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
The Wal-Mart executive — jokingly calling the corporate giant a "small company from Arkansas," Clinton's home state — said the company already operates in high-risk areas including parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But Wal-Mart has no presence in Tripoli, the Libyan capital Clinton named as a possible location.
Newly elected Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif is listed among about 1,000 forum participants, as is Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
Libya faces more domestic upheaval after the killings of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens
and three other Americans in the Libyan city of Benghazi earlier this
month. Both Egypt and Libya have seen protests against an anti-Islam
film made in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
More than 50 current or former heads of state are lined up for this year's high-power gathering. On Sunday, the audience in the ballroom of the Sheraton New York Hotel included the former president's daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to speak on Monday morning, and President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday....
The U.N. secretary-general said the "top priority" is sustainable development — especially for basic needs such as energy, food and water in poor parts of the world. "I'm going to sound an alarm to all the leaders," he said. "We are living in an era of insecurity, injustice, inequality and intolerance, and what should we do?"
He called on powerful businesses like Wal-Mart to not only act for profit but also "for humanity.""...
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Easily identifiable US retail stores are the first to get torched in the middle east. Sept. 2012, "Lebanese men ransack US fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they" a film, afp, getty. Below are photos of now dead US Ambassador to Libya while dead or unconscious. getty. Below those, blood smears on wall of US Consulate in Libya.
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More than 50 current or former heads of state are lined up for this year's high-power gathering. On Sunday, the audience in the ballroom of the Sheraton New York Hotel included the former president's daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to speak on Monday morning, and President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday....
The U.N. secretary-general said the "top priority" is sustainable development — especially for basic needs such as energy, food and water in poor parts of the world. "I'm going to sound an alarm to all the leaders," he said. "We are living in an era of insecurity, injustice, inequality and intolerance, and what should we do?"
He called on powerful businesses like Wal-Mart to not only act for profit but also "for humanity.""...
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Easily identifiable US retail stores are the first to get torched in the middle east. Sept. 2012, "Lebanese men ransack US fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they" a film, afp, getty. Below are photos of now dead US Ambassador to Libya while dead or unconscious. getty. Below those, blood smears on wall of US Consulate in Libya.
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