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June 13, 2000
SINGAPORE, JUNE 12 (AP) - More than 40 senior public and private sector representatives from Asia, Europe and the United States will meet in Singapore later this year to discuss environmental preservation in the Asia-Pacific, conference organizers said Monday.
The Asia-Pacific Council is expected to review major conservation and economic development issues and make recommendations for collaborative action across the region when it meets in August.
"We are going to present issues to them, let them know our plans for Asia," said Carol Fox, director, program development for Asia-Pacific at The Nature Conservancy.
Fox said the U.S.-based non-governmental organization is currently working with Asian partners on projects in the region, and is trying to get more business leaders involved.
"We want them to focus their minds and their resources on changing the way that business and the environment work together," she said.
Singapore's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew and Henry Paulson, chief executive of financial services company Goldman Sachs, will be co-chairmen when the Council meets in Singapore on August 7-8.
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