Media centre: 98th International Labour Conference (2009)
June 2009
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, addressing the 98th International Labour Conference during its closing session - [mp3 1503 KB]
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia closing remarks to the 98th International Labour Conference - [mp3 10676 KB]
Closing remarks by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia - ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis - 17 June 2009 - [mp3 7064 KB]
Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica told the Global Jobs Summit that the scale of the global economic crisis has hit thriving economies hard and struggling economies even harder. Supporting the call for a global jobs pact, he says job creation is an essential ingredient, not an outcome, of economic recovery (in English) - [mp3 12383 KB]
Prime Minister Tertius Zongo, Burkina Faso, tells the International Labour Conference that the employment crisis could become a large-scale social crisis and that a real solution will require a more democratic global economy (in French) - [mp3 9041 KB]
Mr. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Togolese Republic addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in French) - [mp3 8047 KB]
Ms. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of the Argentine Republic addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in Spanish) - [mp3 14349 KB]
Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in French) - [mp3 17273 KB]
Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in Portuguese) - [mp3 13046 KB]