Press Releases, Speeches and Statements

Press Releases

• 05/06/2008 - OECD
  Chair's summary of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, Paris, 4-5 June 2008
• 05/06/2008 - OECD
  OECD Declaration on Sovereign Wealth Funds and Recipient Country Policies
• 05/06/2008 - OECD
  OECD Ministerial Declaration on Policy Coherence for Development
• 04/06/2008 - OECD
  OECD Outlook sees weak growth and inflation remaining high 
• 30/05/2008 - Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
  TUAC holds talks on union priorities concerning the OECD enlargement process
• 29/05/2008 - OECD
  OECD and FAO see agricultural commodity prices remaining high and growing more volatile
• 28/05/2008 - Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
  Union Leaders call for urgent action on jobs, inequality and food crisis in advance of the OECD Finance Ministers’ Meeting
  

Speeches

• Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, for the presentation of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017

Statements

Session 8: Sovereign Wealth Funds, June 5, 2008

• Statement by Mr. Ronnie Bar-On, Israeli Minister of Finance

Session 6: OECD Management Issues, June 5, 2008

• Statement by Mr. Marcin Korolec, Polish Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy
• Statement by Mr. Alfredo Bonet Baiget, Spanish General Secretary for Trade, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade

Session 5: The Political Economy of Reform, June 4, 2008

• Statement by Mr. Ronnie Bar-On, Israeli Minister of Finance
• Statement by Mr. Urmas Paet, Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs

Session 4: The Economics of Climate Change, June 4, 2008

• Statement by Mr. Eckhard Deutscher, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Statement by Mr. Urmas Paet, Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs
  

Session 3: OECD Activities and Strategic Orientations: Report by the Secretary-General, June 4, 2008

• Statement by Mr. Ronnie Bar-On, Israeli Minister of Finance
• Statement by Mr. Ronnie Bar-On, Israeli Minister of Finance, on Policy Coherence

Ministerial Bureau Consultation with BIAC and TUAC, June 3, 2008

• Statement from the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) to the OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level
• Statement from the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) to the OECD Council Meeting at Ministerial Level

Related Documents

• OECD Forum 2008:
  • Speeches 
  • Message from OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría
  • Message from Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico

Archives

• Final communiqués from 1976 to 2007.
• Previous websites for the Ministerial Council Meeting in 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.