WEF/Annual Meeting/1988
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 Andreas Papandreou and Turgut Özal shaking hands. | |
| Date | January 1988 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | Held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1988. |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Andreas Papandreou, Turgut Özal, Carl Sagan, Klaus Schwab, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Kurt Furgler, Hans Tietmeyer |
The 1988 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1988.
Own words
The political highlight of the 1988 Annual Meeting was the renewed rapprochement between Prime Minister Turgut Özal of Turkey and Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece. After their first encounter in Davos in 1986, the tension between the two countries escalated and nearly led to war. Two years later, through many preparatory visits in Athens and Ankara, Klaus Schwab succeeded in bringing both sides back to Switzerland, where they negotiated and signed the Davos Declaration aimed at normalizing relations.[1]
For the second year in a row, a high-level Russian delegation, which was led by Ivan Ivanov, Deputy Chairman of the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations, was present at the Annual Meeting.
And after having addressed participants by satellite in 1987, Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone came to Davos. In his address he urged industrialized countries to adopt the standardization of taxation regimes as a long-term goal.
The global magnitude as well as the human and economic toll ofHIV/AIDS occupied an important place and a great deal of time in the discussions at Davos, even if this issue had only recently emerged.
Carl Sagan, the celebrated American astrophysicist, highlighted the risks to the environment and life systems from some of the very technological developments that have been the basis for our prosperity and progress.
Known Participants
6 of the 7 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
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| Kurt Furgler | President of Switzerland. 3 Bilderbergs, from 1970 to 1980. Wanted a strong central government and integration with the European Union. |
| Yasuhiro Nakasone | Prime Minister of Japan 1982-1987 |
| Andreas Papandreou | Twice Greek prime minister |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Hans Tietmeyer | President of the German Bundesbank |
| Turgut Özal | 1990s Turkish president covertly assassinated by deep state forces |
