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| Thursday, 22 April 2004 |
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Kingsley at annual conference 2004 - BOAO Forum for Asia-China
National Leaders of Asia, both present and past, will gather in the picturesque tourist resort of BOAO in the Hainan Province, P. R. China, to participate in the Annual Conference 2004 of BFA from today till April 26. The keynote address at the opening ceremony will be delivered by the President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao and among the other speakers would be, Mahathir Bin Mohammed, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, George Bush, Past President of the USA and Fidel V. Ramos, former President of the Philippines. The theme will be 'Asia Searching for Win-Win: An Asia Open to the World'. Prominent among the political and business leaders will be former Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, former President of Pakistan, Farooq Ahmed Kahan Leghai, former Prime Minister of Nepal, Kirti Nidhi Bista, Governor Kingsley T. Wickramaratne and Advisory Council Member of BFA, Mark Vaile, Minister of Trade - Australia, Hwang Doo Yun, Minister of Trade, Republic of Korea, Jim Sutton, Minister of Trade, New Zealand, Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister for Information Technology - Japan, Kitai Lee, President of Samsung Electronic Corporation, Gerard Kleistertee, Chairman, Royal Philips Electric group, Helmut Panke, Chairman, BMW-AG, Yugendra Kumar, Chairman FICCI India, Carlos Magninos, Director-General, UNIDO and Tung Chee Hwa, Chief Executive, Hong Kong. Kingsley T. Wickramaratne will be a key panellist of the round table of Asia's Regional/Sub-Regional Organisations and would present a paper on SAARC-Regional Integration. At this conference, Governor Wei Lincheng of the Hainan Province will sign a Letter of Intent between the Hainan Province of P. R. China and the Southern Province of Sri Lanka with Governor, Kingsley T. Wickramaratne, aimed at enhancing economic and cultural cooperation between the two provinces. |
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