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SET invite you to Listed companies’ presentation in Dec 2006

November 30th, 2006

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) cordially invites you to listed companies’ presentation about their Q3/2006 operational performance. The event is open for interested public, analysts, and media to attend.

13:00 - 14:30  hrs.          Salee Industry PCL  (SALEE)
15:00 - 16:30 hrs.           Aapico Hitech PCL (AH)*
15:00 - 16:30 hrs.           Eastern Water Resources Development and Management PCL (EASTW)

In other words, it has become the greatest challenge of our generation. For far too long, the world was in denial. But over the past 10 years, attitudes  have  changed.  The  world has started to take the fight against AIDS as seriously as it deserves. Financial resources are being committed like never before, people have access to antiretroviral treatment like never before, and several countries are  managing  to fight the spread like never before. Now, as the number of infections  continues  unabated,  we  need  to mobilize political will like never before. The  creation of UNAIDS a decade ago, bringing together the strengths and  resources  of many different parts of the United Nations family, was a milestone  in  transforming  the  way  the world responds to AIDS. And five years  ago,  all  UN  Member States reached a new milestone by adopting the Declaration  of Commitment — containing a number of specific, far-reaching and time-bound targets for fighting the epidemic. That  same year, as I made HIV/AIDS a personal priority in my work as Secretary-General,  I  called  for  the  creation  of  a  “war-chest” of an additional  seven  to ten billion dollars a year.  Today, I am deeply proud to  be  Patron  of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which has channelled  almost  three  billion  dollars to programmes across the globe.
Recently,  we  have  seen  significant  additional  funding  from bilateral donors,  national  treasuries,  civil  society  and  other sources.  Annual investments  in the response to AIDS in low-and middle-income countries now stand  at  more than eight billion dollars. Of course, much more is needed; by  2010  total  needs  for  a  comprehensive  AIDS response will exceed 20 Because the response has started to gain real momentum, the stakes are higher now than ever before. We cannot risk letting the advances that have been achieved unravel; we must not jeopardize the heroic efforts of so many. The challenge now is to deliver on all the promises that have been made — including the Millennium Development Goal, agreed by all the
world’s Governments, of halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV by 2015. Leaders at every level must recognize that halting the spread of AIDS is also a prerequisite for reaching most of the other Goals, which together form the international community’s agreed blueprint for building a better world in the 21st century. Leaders must hold themselves accountable — and be held accountable by all of us. Accountability  –  the theme of this World AIDS Day — requires every President  and  Prime  Minister,  every  parliamentarian and politician, to decide  and  declare  that  “AIDS  stops  with  me”.  It  requires  them to strengthen  protection  for  all vulnerable groups — whether people living with  HIV, young people, sex workers, injecting drug users, or men who have sex  with  men.  It  requires  them to work hand in hand with civil society groups,  who  are  so crucial to the struggle. It requires them to work for real, positive change that will give more power and confidence to women and
girls,  and  transform  relations  between  women  and men at all levels of society. But  accountability  applies  not  only to those who hold positions of power.  It  also applies to all of us. It requires business leaders to work for HIV prevention in the workplace and in the wider community, and to care for  affected  workers  and  their  families.  It  requires health workers, community  leaders  and  faith-based  groups  to  listen  and care, without
passing  judgement.  It  requires  fathers,  husbands, sons and brothers to support and affirm the rights of women. It requires teachers to nurture the dreams  and aspirations of girls. It requires men to help ensure that other men  assume  their responsibility — and understand that real manhood means protecting  others  from  risk.  And it requires every one of us help bring AIDS out of the shadows, and spread the message that silence is death. I  will  soon  be  stepping  down  as  Secretary-General of the United Nations.  But  as  long  as  I  have  strength,  I will keep spreading that message.  That  is why World AIDS Day will always be special to me. On this World  AIDS  Day,  let  us vow to keep the promise — not only this day, or this year, or next year — but every day, until the epidemic is conquered. Kofi A. Annan

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