May 2000 :
Second convening identifies three key areas of focus: risk assessment, relationships with public security and relationships with private security.
A second meeting at the US Embassy in London included the original group that was convened in March, plus two additional American companies, Enron and Occidental Petroleum. The participants agreed that the process would aim at developing specific guidelines for companies on ways they should handle their security arrangements that would be consistent with international standards on human rights. Furthermore, participants agreed that principles would be voluntary and would address three key areas: the criteria that companies take into account as they assess the risk to human rights in their security arrangements; their relationships with state security forces, both military and police; and company relations with private security forces.