We know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, and the worst financial crisis in century. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created, new schools to build and new jobs to be created, new schools to build and threats to meet and, for us to lead, alliances to repair.
Barack Hussein Obama
President, USA
Our message to G20 will be that they must do everything in their power so that the process of the development, particularly with regard to the millennium development goals, is not adversely affected by the global economic crisis.
Manmohan Singh
Prime Ministe, India
The crisis should not be an excise to go into a protectionist coccon. That would be the worst way to resolve the crisis. Without the free flow of goods and services and capital, there is no way in which the world will recover and get back to the growth path.
P Chidambaram
Finance Minister, India
Russia has an aging population that’s not being replaced and unfortunately a sickly population, and an economy that did not take advantage of higher oil price to diversify.
Condoleezza Rice
US Secretary of state
The G20 Summit would become a step toward the establishment of a new global financial system. I cannot promise you that a new Bretton woods system emerged in Washington, but it is absolutely clear that a step toward the creation of such a system has been made.
Dimitry Medvedev
President, Russia
Agreements at G20 Summit represented a significant step by the international community toward stronger cooperation aimed at resoling the global financial crisis, and supporting the IMF’s capacity to contribute to these efforts.
Dominique Strauss- khan
Managing Director, IMF
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