A major meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has opened at the agency’s headquarters in Paris.

The OECD Ministerial Council met on Wednesday with the participation of Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among other senior officials.

Kim delivered a keynote speech during a session on green growth and held a ceremony that unveiled the OECD’s strategies regarding green growth.

The Prime Minister noted that South Korea’s low-carbon, green growth vision has developed into the overall green growth strategy that the international community, including the OECD, shares.

Kim proposed that countries around the world should cooperate and pursue green growth policies in order to jointly address environmental threats and reap sustainable economic growth.

After giving the speech, Kim attended a dinner hosted by Clinton and discussed with other participants of the meeting the future direction OECD should take for its development.