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Worker makes the last preparations in front of the empty chairs of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France and Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation and Federal Councillor of Economic Affairs in the Congress Hall inside the Congress Center the day before the opening of the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 26, 2010. The overarching theme of the World Economic Forum, WEF, annual meeting which will take place from 27 to 31 January, is "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild". (KEYSTONE/Laurent Gillieron)