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1 Apr 2008

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Shareholder resolutions with financial firms regarding oil companies & Darfur - companies' responses

A coalition of investors filed shareholder resolutions with major banks and financial firms in 2008, seeking to "push the firms to use their investment relationships with Chinese, Indian and Malaysian oil companies to press the government of Sudan to end atrocities in Darfur."... The companies responded to the proposed resolutions in their proxy statements: Citigroup... JPMorgan Chase... Wells Fargo