Vice President Gore will chair the event, deliver the keynote address, and participate in other conference activities. The Vice President intends to bring together many of the world's principal anti-corruption efforts, and government leaders and officials from throughout the world. Conference participants will discuss practices that experience has shown are effective to promote integrity and deter or punish corruption among these government officials. Invitations from the Vice President have been delivered to the governments of 79 countries to send officials or experts to participate in the conference. These countries were selected to provide the broadest possible reflection of the geographic, economic, historical and cultural diversity of the global community.
Responses are as yet preliminary, but are uniformly positive.
Many governments have expressed particular interest at addressing this issue with reference to all forms of corruption affecting justice and security officials, not limited to the better-studied specific issue of bribery in commercial transactions. Twenty have indicated that they will send one or more participants at or above ministerial level. The United States, as host to the conference, will compile a full report, including all prepared presentations and ample summaries of discussions. It is planned for this report to be published about a month after the conference ends. The Lyon Group could then consider transmitting the conference report, along with its analysis and recommendations, as a response to the Koln Summit to the Birmingham mandate on corruption.