From 25-27 June 2008, the InterAction Council held its 26th Annual Plenary Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
This meeting was comprised of the following sessions:
- Present State of the World
- Restoring International Law: Legal, Political and Human Dimensions
- Managing International Financial Markets
List of Participants
IAC Members
1. H. E. Mr. Helmut Schmidt, Honorary Chairman (Former
Chancellor of Germany)
2. H. E. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Honorary Chairman (Former
Prime Minister of Australia)
3. H. E. Mr. Ingvar Carlsson, Co-chairman (Former Prime
Minister of Sweden)
4. H. E. Mr. Jean Chrétien, Co-chairman (Former Prime
Minister of Canada)
5. H. E. Mr. Esko Aho (Former Prime Minister of the
Republic of Finland)
6. H. E. Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland (Former Prime Minister
of Norway)
7. H. E. Mrs. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (Former President of
the Republic of Iceland)
8. H. E. Mr. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (Former President
of the Republic of Indonesia)
9. H. E. Mr. Lee Hong-Koo (Former Prime Minister of
Korea)
10. H. E. Mr. AbdelSalam Majali (Former Prime Minister of
Jordan)
11. H. E. Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa (Former President of
Tanzania)
12. H. E. Mr. Yoshiro Mori (Former Prime Minister of
Japan)
13. H. E. Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo (Former President of the
Nigeria)
14. H. E. Mr. Andrés Pastrana (Former President of
Colombia)
15. H. E. Mr. Percival N.J. Patterson (Former Prime
Minister of the Republic of Jamaica)
16. H. E. Mr. José Sarney (Former President of Brazil)
17. H. E. Mr. Constantinos Georgios Simitis (Former Prime
Minister of Greece)
18. H. E. Mr. Tung Chee Hwa (Former Chief Executive of
Hong Kong)
19. H. E. Mr. George Vassiliou (Former President of
Cyprus)
20. H. E. Mr. Franz Vranitzky (Former Chancellor of
Austria)
21. H. E. Mr. Richard von Weizsäcker (Former President of
Germany)
22. H. E. Mr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon (Former
President of Mexico)
Associate Members
23. Dr. Abdul Rahman Hamad Al-Saeed, Advisor, The Royal
Court (Saudi Arabia, Representing Mr. Abdul Aziz Z.
Al-Quraishi)
24. Prof. Thomas Axworthy, Chair of the Centre for the
Study of Democracy, Queen’s University (Canada)
25. Baroness Jay, Chairperson of the Overseas Development
Institute, London (U. K.)
26. Prof. Hans Küng, Professor Emeritus, Tübingen
University (Switzerland)
27. Dr. Lee Seung-yun, (Former Deputy-Prime Minister of
Korea)
28. Mr. Seiken Sugiura (Former Justice Minister of
Japan)
Special Guests
29. Mrs. Caroline Anstey, Chief of Staff, Office of the
President, World Bank
30. Mr. James Blanchard, (Former United States Ambassador
to Canada, Former Governor of Michigan)
31. H. E. Mr. Hans Blix (Former Chairman of the UN
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for
Iraq)
32. Dr. Olav Brundtland, Scholar in international
relations (Norway)
33. Dr. Hans Corell, (Former Legal Counsel to the UN and
UN Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs) (Sweden)
34. Mr. Nagao Hyodo, (Former Japanese Ambassador to
Belgium)
35. Mr. Julius Liljeström, (Sweden)
36. Prof. Timothy L.H. McCormack, Professor of
International Humanitarian Law, University of Melbourne
Law School (Australia)
37. Mr. Qian Qichen, (Former Deputy Premier of the State
Council) (China)
38. Dr. Sergey Rogov, Director of Institute for USA and
Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences
39. Prof. Teizo Taya, Rikkyo University (Japan)
40. Prof. Tu Weiming, Harvard University (China)
41. H. E. Mr. Ola Ullsten (Former Prime Minister of
Sweden, Former member of IAC)
The InterAction Council acknowledges with gratitude the support given to the 26th Annual Meeting by the Governments of Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Sweden as well as the City of Stockholm.