Third Bo'ao Forum to greet more new faces (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-04-21 08:49
The third annual meeting of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia (BFA) is scheduled to be
held April 24-25 at Bo'ao in South China's Hainan Province.
The current session will have many new faces, including Chinese President Hu
Jintao, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Pakistani Prime Minister Mir
Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Gzech President Vaclav Klaus, former US President George
Bush and former Mexico President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce De Leon.
Participants attending the session more than once comprise former Malaysian
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Bin Mohamad, former president of the
Philippines Fidel Ramos, former Australian Primer Minister Robert James Lee
Hawke, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa and
Macao Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Ho Hau Wah.
Also present will be government ministers from Japan, the Republic of Korea,
Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Australia and New Zealand, 26 Chinese ministers
and officials at the provincial level and representatives of prestigious
multinational companies. The session also attract 420 Chinese and overseas
journalists.
Long Yongtu, secretary-general of the BFA, said BFA is an open event, and
Asians welcome people from all over the world to discuss Asian issues.
The appearance of a growing number of new faces indicates that the forum is
exerting a bigger influence, he added.
