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Center for Human Rights and Environment
General Paz, 186 – 10A, Córdoba, 5000 Argentina, [email protected] 54 (351) 425-6278 www.cedha.org.ar
April 17, 2006 Córdoba, Argentina
NORDEA
Hans Dalborg
Chairman of the Board of Nordea
Member of CSR Europe's Advisory Board
Knut Rørbakken
Group CSR Officer
Nordea Bank AB
[email protected]
RE: Pending NORDEA Response to Corporate Social Responsibility and Human
Rights Compliance Complaint
Cc: ING: Michel Tilmat, Cees Maas, Jonathan Atack, Peter Jong, Huib te Haar, Cor Herkstroter, BBVA:
José Angel Moreno, Francisco Gonzalez, Tomas Conde, Vitalino Nafria, Manuel Gonzalez Cid, Pablo
Fernandez Calvo; Meg Taylor (CAO), Amar Inamdar (CAO), Alieto Guadagni, (World Bank Executive
Director for Argentina), Declan Duff (IFC), Atul Mehta (IFC), Santiago Cantón (Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights), Jorge Busti (Governor of Entre Ríos, Argentina); Jorge Taiana (Argentine Foreign
Minister), Gualeguaychú Environmental Assembly, Keith Kozloff (US Treasury), Johan Frijns (Banktrack);
Joseph Wilde (OECD); Business and Human Rights Resource Center; Karl Jackson (World Bank), O.
Bordón (Argentine Embassy); Jorge Taiana (Foreign Minister, Argentina), Assembly of Gualeguaychú,
Keith Kozloff, Rachel Bayley (US Treasury), BBVA.
Dear Mr. Knut Rørbakken
Thank you for your reply of April 17. As you suggest, in fact yes, "you" replied personally,
with one Email, on behalf of NORDEA, that you would meet with us. I hope still that this
meeting will be possible at some future date as we would be very pleased to meet you.
However, what concerns us is not NORDEA’s willingness to meet with CEDHA, but that
NORDEA has not replied publicly or to anyone to the "Corporate Social
Responsibility and Human Rights Obligations Complaint”,1 which gains more and
more legitimacy as time progresses. NORDEA's is involved in very concerning complicity
to violations of regulations, norms, and rights confirmed by the IFC’s Compliance
Advisory Ombudsman, and even by the IFC itself. These violations are of very serious
concern to the general public, and are independent to whether or not CEDHA and
NORDEA can meet at some unspecified date.
The complaint sent February 6th, has 14 pages of information regarding violations to IFC
safeguard and environmental policy, national laws and regulations, international law, by
the Botnia project which NORDEA is to support. We submitted evidence and references
to a long list of official project documents, official legal complaints, international
complaints, and much more information substantiating our arguments and accusations,
as well as the conclusions of the CAO, which has ruled against the IFC and the
companies in these projects. NORDEA HAS NOT RESPONDED TO ANY OF THESE.
1 http://www.cedha.org.ar/en/initiatives/paper_pulp_mills/denuncia-nordea-csr-eng.pdf