G20: Ban welcomes the commitment from G20 leaders
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, 2 April 2009 - Daily Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General. The Secretary-General is still in London, where he just wrapped up his participation in the Group of 20 Summit. In his prepared remarks to the Summit, the Secretary-General emphasized that the current downturn has exacerbated the food crisis that raised the number of hungry to nearly one billion. He also said that global green growth must be a major component of any global stimulus and that better regulations governing the world financial system are sorely needed. Secretary-General's statement on the Group of 20 (G20) London Summit Outcome: http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=3767
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