The UK Foreign Office and the US Department of State brought together a number of leading companies from the extractive industries (Freeport McMoRan, Shell, BP, Rio Tinto, and Chevron and Texaco [separately, prior to their merger which formed ChevronTexaco]) with human rights and corporate responsibility organizations (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Alert, Safer World, Council for Economic Priorities, the International Business Leaders Forum [IBLF] and Business for Social Responsibility [BSR]) in London to determine whether there was a willingness to seek common ground on security and human rights issues. The discussion was constructive, but inconclusive other than a consensus to reconvene in two months.