Salon.com > Clinton Global Initiative http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 00:40:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Clinton calls for action at start of NYC meeting http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/clinton_calls_for_action_at_start_of_nyc_meeting/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/clinton_calls_for_action_at_start_of_nyc_meeting/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:40:00 +0000 http://http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/clinton_calls_for_action_at_start_of_nyc_meeting/ NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday challenged Wal-Mart to open a store in Libya and help create jobs in the world's most troubled areas.

"If the new president of Libya asked you to open a store in Tripoli, would you consider it?" Clinton asked Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke at the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative.

The annual forum brings together leaders in politics, business and philanthropy for three days of brainstorming about the most pressing global problems.

Duke was on a Clinton-mediated panel with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Queen Rania of Jordan and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

The Wal-Mart executive — jokingly calling the corporate giant a "small company from Arkansas," Clinton's home state — said the company already operates in high-risk areas including parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But Wal-Mart has no presence in Tripoli, the Libyan capital Clinton named as a possible location.

Newly elected Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif is listed among about 1,000 forum participants, as is Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

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