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Jeff Mustard
EurOrient Financial Group
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EurOrient Financial Group 2009 New Year's Message:

Wall Street, Main Street, No Street

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORINA: 01 January 2009 – The New Year is always a time for reflection and
a time to look forward and anticipate what challenges and opportunities lie ahead; it is also a time to make
plans for responding to challenges and opportunities in the coming year. The year 2008 was marked by
considerable uncertainties and challenges as the world confronted "triple crises": soaring food and fuel
prices, climate change, and also development emergencies. Now all these triple crises have been
compounded by the global financial crisis. We come together today at a time of intense crisis --
unrelenting waves buffeting the world's people and institutions.

Now more than ever we must be bold. In these times of crisis, when we are tempted to look inward, it is
precisely the time when we must move pursuit of the common good to the top of the agenda. Global
solidarity is necessary and in the interest of all. Pursuing the common good will require addressing a set
of global challenges that hold the key to our common future.

While recently we have heard much (in the US) about how problems on Wall Street are affecting innocent
people on Main Street, we need to think more about those people around the world with no streets. Wall
Street, Main Street, no street -- the solutions devised must be for all.

"Developing countries need help, too," Mr. Ron Nechemia, the Chairman of the Board of Director of
EurOrient Financial Group empresses. "They face reduced export demand and reduced access to trade
credit. And many are already suffering from the other crisis -- the food and fuel crisis that has strained
budgets and balances of payments and raised inflation and living costs." While there are a number of
feasible options before us all, doing nothing is not an option. We are at a point in history in which "We
the People" and the international community have the chance of ending the scandal of millions on our
planet living and dying without their basic needs being met because of the paltry amounts of finance
made available by the world’s richest to the world’s poorest.

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EurOrient Financial Group 2009 New Year's Message:
Wall Street, Main Street, No Street

"Current global crises, ranging from food to fuel and finance, offer an opportunity to increase solidarity
among developed and developing countries," the President of the EurOrient Financial Group said today,
stressing the potential benefits for dealing with a range of issues.

EurOrient Financial Group is a private sector global development financial institution accredited by the
United Nations General Assembly on Financing for Development. The mission of the EurOrient Financial
Group is to support the economic and social development efforts of the less developed countries as they,
in particular, seek to achieve the Millennium Development Goals ("MDGs").

Let’s all make refocus on development our New Year’s resolution – and I wish you a very Happy New
Year!

On behalf of my colleagues at EurOrient Financial Group, I extend my sincere wishes for a productive,
development-oriented 2009!

About Mr. Nechemia

Mr. Ron Nechemia is a founding member of the EurOrient Financial Group (“EurOrient”) and its various
affiliate development financial institutions and the founding father of private sector development banking.

Mr. Nechemia's unique wealth of knowledge has earned him many international awards and recognitions.
He is frequently been invited to consult and to advise in Special High-Level Policy Dialog to express its
views and to share experiences on financing for development and on trade and investment related issues
in front of the international community bilateral and multilateral organizations such as the Bretton Woods
Institutions – the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),United Nations General
Assembly, United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the World Trade Organization
(WTO). Mr. Nechemia is a member of the UNCTAD/ICC Investment Advisory Council and recognized
as a foreign financial expert by the State Administration of Foreign Experts, the People’s Republic Of
China and he is frequently been invited to advise and lecture on behalf of governments such as the United
State of America, Republic of the Philippines, the People's Republic of China, South Korea, and the State
of California Department of Energy just to name a few.

About EurOrient

     
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EurOrient Financial Group 2009 New Year's Message:
Wall Street, Main Street, No Street

EurOrient Financial Group is a private sector global development finance institution accredited by the
United Nations General Assembly on Financing for Development. The company’s principal objective it to
reduce global poverty and promote sustainable economic growth. EurOrient invests in projects and
programs that promote social development, build human capacities, and address host government
priorities for investments in physical infrastructure that promote and enhance social development. These
projects include roads, transportation and communication systems, water, sanitation and other types of
investments with social development outcomes such as improved quality of life and increased human
knowledge and skills. The mission of the EurOrient Financial Group is to support the economic and social
development efforts of the less developed countries as they, in particular, seek to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals ("MDGs").

EurOrient at Glance
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
Website: www.eurorient.org
CEO: Mr. Ron Nechemia

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