Communiqué of the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24), April 27, 1997, Washington, D.C.

Ministers of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs held their fifty-sixth meeting in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 1997. Mr. Antonio Casas González, President of the Central Bank of Venezuela, was in the chair, with Mr. Abdelkrim Harchaoui of Algeria as First Vice-Chairman, and Mr. G.L. Peiris of Sri Lanka as Second ViceChairman.
The meeting was attended by Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Mr. James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank; Mr. Mohammed Kabbaj, Chairman, Development Committee; Mr. Daudi N. Mwakawago, Chairman of the Group of 77; Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Mr. Carlos Fortin, Deputy-Secretary-General, UNCTAD; Mr. G.K. Helleiner, G-24 Research Coordinator; Mr. Y. Seyyid Abdulai, Director-General, OPEC Fund for International Development; Mr. Stefan Balabanoff, OPEC; Mrs. Manuela Tortora de Rangel, Latin American Economic System; Ms. Ines Bustillo, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Mr. Enam A. Chaudhury, Islamic Development Bank; Mr. Manuel F. Fontecha, Central American Monetary Council; Mr. Liu Jibin, People’s Republic of China; Mr. Mohamed Seqat, Morocco; Mr. Hamad Al-Sayari, Saudi Arabia; and Mr. Trevor Manuel, South Africa.