In 1996 David Weissbrodt was nominated by the Clinton Administration and elected by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to serve for four years as a U.S. member for the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. He was re-nominated and re-elected in 2000 to another four-year term on the Sub-Commission.

Professor Weissbrodt was asked to prepare these guidelines by the Working Group on the Methods and Activities of Transnational Corporations.

Dr Weissbrodt would be most grateful for further comments or suggestions by January 1, 2002.

In early January 2002 he hopes to transmit a newly revised draft to my four colleagues on the U.N. Working Group on the Working Methods and Activities of Transnational Corporations for further consultations in February and the preparation of a more authoritative draft in May 2002.

Eventually the draft will be discussed at the public session of the Working Group which is presently expected to occur 30-31 July 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland, and which people are encouraged to attend.