Communiqué of the Sixtieth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24), October 3, 1998, Washington, D.C.

Ministers of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs held their sixtieth meeting in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 1998. Mr. Abdelkrim Harchaoui, Minister of Finance of Algeria was in the chair, with Mr. G.L. Peiris of Sri Lanka as First Vice-Chairman, and Mr. Germán Suárez of Peru as Second Vice-Chairman. The meeting was attended by Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Mr. James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank; Mr. Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda, Chairman, Development Committee; Mr. Makarim Wibisono, Chairman of the Group of 77; Mr. Nitin Desai, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Mr. Y. Akyuz, Chief, UNCTAD; Mr. G.K. Helleiner, G-24 Research Coordinator; Mr. Y. Seyyid Abdulai, Director-General, OPEC Fund for International Development; Ms. Inés Bustillo, Officer-in-Charge, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Mr. Ahmad M. Ali, President, Islamic Development Bank;Mr. Dai Xianglong, Governor, People’s Republic of China; Mr. Mohammed Daïri, Morocco; Mr.Ibrahim A. Al-Assaf, Minister of Finance and National Economy, Saudi Arabia; Mr. Christian Stals, Governor, South African Reserve Bank.