Wednesday, March 30, 2011

What did Bono and the Argentinian President Talk about?


The Argentinian President  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met Bono yesterday in the Pink House (The Government House)  .Bono asked the leader to support ,in the next G-20 meeting, the fact that the companies and governments  publish their accounts so they can be well known all over the world.
Bono arrived at 7.30 pm with five people of his entourage and left the Governmet House after 8.30.
According to presidential spokesperson,Alfredo Scoccimarro, the singer and activist in defence of the developing countries  asked the President to propose three topics to be developed in the next G-20 meeting.
In the first place he considered that Argentina should support the development of technologies for the investigation, making and distribution of vaccines as he believes that if there is a worldwide vaccination system in ten years diseases like malaria will be a thing of the past.
Then Bono remarked the importance of sharing the know-how of agro-industrial technology with the rest of the world to increase food production and help in the fight against poverty and huger.
Finally he mentioned the need of asking in the G-20 meeting that "all the oil and mining companies" , and the President added "all companies" "communicate their accounts to the people so everybody knows how much they ear and how much tax they pay"



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