Bilderberg/1996
Toronto, Canada
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| Date | 30 May 1996 - 2 June 1996 |
| Location | Toronto, Canada |
| Description | The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Perpetrators | Bilderberg/Steering committee |
| Participants | Peter Carrington, Victor Halberstadt, Casimir Yost, Giovanni Agnelli, Martti Ahtisaari, Paul Allaire, Dwayne Andreas, Anders Aslund, Lloyd Axworthy, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Percy Barnevik, Lloyd Bentsen, Franco Bernabe, Christoph Bertram, Selahattin Beyazit, Carl Bildt, Conrad Black, Frits Bolkestein, Pieter Bottelier, John Bryan, William F. Buckley, Costa Carras, Ulrich Cartellieri, Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Jean Chretien, Bertrand Collomb, Jon Corzine, Flavio Cotti, Kenneth Dam, George David, Étienne Davignon, Marie-Josee Drouin, Fredrik Eaton, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Gazi Ercel, Martin S. Feldstein, Stanley Fischer, Al Flood, Chas. W. Freeman, Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Gigot, Emre Gonensay, Allan Gotlieb, Anthony Griffin, Michael Harris, Helmut Haussmann, Westye Høegh, Richard Holbrooke, Jan Huyghebaert, Jaakko Iloniemi, Peter Job, Vernon Jordan, Lionel Jospin, Dietrich Karner, Henry Kissinger, Andrew Knight, Max Kohnstamm, Max Kothbauer, Henry R. Kravis, Kurt Lauk, Pierre Lellouche, André Lévy-Lang, Winston Lord, Margarida Marante, Paul Martin, Jack F. Matlock, Philippe Maystadt, Donald F. McHenry, Ad P.W. Melkert, John Monks, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Beatrix Armgard, Sam Nunn, Andrzej Olechowski, Sylvia Ostry, Theodoros G. Pangalos, William J. Perry, Jan Petersen, Norman Podhoretz, David de Pury, Malcolm Rifkind, Simon Robertson, David Rockefeller, Edward S. Rogers, Eric Roll, Renato Ruggiero, Mona Sahlin, Jürgen E. Schrempp, Klaus Schwab, Toger Seidenfaden, Jack Sheinkman, Cornelio Sommaruga, George Soros, Queen Sofia, George Stephanopoulos, Jürgen Strube, Gyorgy Suranyi, Peter Sutherland, Morris Tabaksnlat, J. Martin Taylor, Alexander Trotman, Walter Veltroni, António Vitorino, Henning Voschherau, Franz Vranitzky, Karel Vuursteen, Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956), Stanley A. Weiss, John C. Whitehead, L. R. Wilson, James Wolfensohn, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Paul Wolfowitz, Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo |
| Witnessed by | Willem-Alexander Ferdinand, Philippe of Belgium, John Micklethwait, Alice Victor |
The 1996 Bilderberg Meeting was the 44th Bilderberg. It had participants from Europe, the United States and Canada. It was held in Toronto, Canada. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next meeting was the 1997 Bilderberg.
Agenda
The 1996 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.
1. Status Report on the Alliance
2. Former Yugoslavia
Vic Bilson has asserted that the Kosovo War was planned at the 1996 Bilderberg.[1]
3. Russia: Political Forces and Economic Prospects
4. Europe: the Politics of EU Enlargement
5. Has Europe's Economy Run out of Steam?
6. Will the Enlarged Union Survive EMU's Success or Failure?
7. The US Agenda
8. The Israeli Election
9. How and How Much can the Western World Grow Economically?
10. WTO and World Bank: Briefing
11. Where is China Going?
Exposure
Jon Deverell wrote Black Plays Host to World Leaders for the Toronto Star, published on 30 May 1996.[2]