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Jordan to host first UN Global Compact centre for Middle East network

25 Apr 2007
The UN Global Compact is to establish an Arab network for Global Compact operations in the Middle East, under the auspices of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States. Responsibility for organizing the new Middle Eastern network was given to Talal Abu-Ghazaleh when UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed him Deputy-Chairman of the Global Compact on 5 April.
 
Abu-Ghazaleh is the founder and chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organisation, the largest Arab global group of professional service firms in the fields of accounting, management and consulting. Under the plans for the Arab network, Global Compact centres are to be established in various Arab nations. The first such centre will be in Jordan. Planning is already underway between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
 
More centres are to be launched soon in other Arab states like Egypt and Syria. In addition, the Global Compact and the
International Standards Organization (ISO) will set new standard, the ISO 2600 standard on corporate social responsibility.
 
Members will be evaluated on the basis of the ISO 2600 for the social contribution they make in their countries, Abu-Ghazaleh explained. Abu-Ghazaleh stressed the role of the Global Compact in providing guidance, advocacy and advancing the shared mission of peace, human rights and development.