A third meeting was held at the US Department of State in Washington, DC to review a first draft of the principles that was circulated in advance, and preceded by a series of informal consultations with company and NGO participants alike. The drafting was largely done by the US Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. At this point, one NGO (Safer World) dropped out of the process and two others joined the process (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Union and the Fund for Peace. An additional US company, Conoco, joined as well.