But something happened to the Administration's position on the way to the latest global forum.
"We cannot allow forests to be taken up in global forums."
The event gives a senior individual an opportunity to initiate discussion of serious concern to world trade in a global forum.
More and more standards are likely to be set in such global forums.
It is the one global forum for advancing our views in the world marketplace of ideas.
The Global Forum has drawn 15,000 participants from 165 nations.
Two years later, the United States facilitated the first global forum on women's issues.
In addition, the Tokyo market has both won and lost in terms of its image as a global forum for investment.
"I believe that my commitment to this comes from my own experiences," he said of the global forum.
Some success and a global forum for leaders to conflab is enough, they argue.
