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Speaking to an audience of 200 business leaders in Zurich (Monday, January 28) Mowlana Hazar Imam called on industrialised nations to expand their economic activity in the countries of the third world.

I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation of the opportunity you have given me today to speak in this important city of Europe. The business and financial institutions of Zurich have made it one of the great symbols of private initiative in the industrial world, and I am happy to be able to address you on a subject which extends the horizons of individual enterprise to the developing world.

Prince Karim Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's Shia Ismaili Muslims, married Princess Gabrielle zu Liningen at his Aiglemont estate north of Paris, his office said. It was the second marriage for both. The prince, who is 61, is the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili community and the son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Joan Aly Khan. The German-born Liningen, 35, comes from a family of industrialists. She has a 6-year-old daughter from her first marriage.