Both companies have large nuclear-related businesses and appear to be eager to speak about endgame possibilities for a crisis that has heightened global public mistrust of nuclear power.
Each and every one of you in this room, with your gift and power and skills, could perhaps change the way in which our global humanity mistrusts itself.
They could engage foreign countries in a debate on global standards — overcoming mistrust of American protectionism to develop rules protecting workers from abuse by footloose corporations seeking the cheapest labor.
Echoing Rousseau, Reves argued that nation-states threaten human peace, justice and freedom, by diverting funds from important needs, prolonging a global climate of mistrust and fear, and creating a war machine that ultimately precipitates actual war.
FEW businesses do well in a climate of global political instability and mistrust of banks.
For some in Kansas, New York can be the mistrusted symbol of global capitalism as much as it is in Kabul -- one woman called me to ask just what the World Trade Center, emphasis on "world," was; she wanted to be reassured that it wasn't the seat of the One World Government before deciding whose side to take.
America's suspicion of this sort of global agreement seems to stem more from an old-fashioned Republican mistrust of international organisations.The proposed germ-warfare pact is the perfect example.
Failure to raise that money, he said, would "reinforce mistrust and breed cynicism" in the developing world before the next round of global climate talks, in Durban, South Africa, in November.
With the move, banks are trying to bring to a close an issue that has caused widespread anger and mistrust among Hong Kong residents who have fallen victim of the global credit crisis.
But without a strong set of agreed international rules -- the sort that come with a global accord -- there is a real danger that these side deals could create more mistrust and unfair competition.
