Communiqué of the Sixty-First Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24), April 26, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Ministers of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs held their sixty-first meeting in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 1999. Mr. G.L. Peiris, Minister for Justice and Constitutional and Ethnic Affairs and Deputy Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka was in the chair, with Mr. Germán Suárez of Peru as First Vice-Chairman, and Mr. Mallam Ismaila Usman of Nigeria as Second Vice-Chairman. The meeting was attended by Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Mr. James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank; Mr. John Toye, UNCTAD; Mr. Oscar de Rojas, United Nations; Mr. S.R. Insanally, Chairman of the Group of 77; Mr. Dani Rodrik, G-24 Research Coordinator; Mr. Y. Seyyid Abdulai, Director-General, OPEC Fund for International Development; Ms. Inés Bustillo, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Mr. Ousmane Seck, Vice President, Islamic Development Bank; Mr. Liqun Jin, Vice-Minister of Finance, People’s Republic of China; Mr. Samir Fouad, Morocco; Mr. Hamad Albazai, Deputy Minister of Finance, Saudi Arabia; Mr. Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance, South Africa.