Statements and presentations from the Doha Conference
Throughout the EITI Conference, over 40 Government, company and civil society representatives addressed the conference and the EITI Stakeholders Forum.
The opening session was addressed by the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Investor George Soros and CEO of Shell Jeroen van der Veer.
On the closing day the EITI Stakeholders Forum was opened with an address by the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, H.E. Igancio Milam Tang. Representatives of Albania and Ethiopia announced their intentions to implement the EITI. Japan formally endorsed the EITI and became an EITI supporting country. Several candidate countries, including Gabon, Peru, Mongolia and Kazakhstan reiterated their commitment to EITI implementation.
Statements and presentations held at the conference are available below (pdf or ppt):
- Transparency International (French)
- Publish What You Pay (International)
- Publish What You Pay (USA)
- A joint proposal by NGOs from Kazakhstan Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine
- Déclaration sur l'ITIE en Mauritanie
- Statement by Kyrgyz CSO Consortium
- Statement by George Soros, Open Society Institute
- Presentation by Sefton Darby, SEB Strategy
- Presentation by Anwar Rabat, World Bank
- Presentation by Jeroen van der Ver, Royal Dutch Shell plc
- Presentation by R.M. Kruger, ExxonMobil
- Presentation by Peter J. Robertson, Chevron Corporation
- Statement by Takatoshi Kato, IMF Deputy Managing Director
- Speech by H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
- Presentation by Sh. Tsolmon, Mongolia EITI Secretariat Coordinator
- Statement by the Government of Japan
