Communiqué of the Fifty-Seventh Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24), September 20, 1997, Hongkong, China

Ministers of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs held their fifty-seventh meeting in Hong Kong, China, on September 20, 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 Vice-Chairman. The meeting was attended by Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Mr. James Wolfensohn, President, World Bank; Mr. Driss Jettou, Chairman, Development Committee; Mr. Rubens Ricupero, Secretary-General, UNCTAD; Mr. Aziz Ali Mohammed, G-24 Liaison Office; Mr. G. K. Helleiner, G-24 Research Coordinator; Mr.Y. Seyyid Abdulai, Director-General, OPEC Fund for International Development; Mr. Abdurahman N. Hersi, Islamic Development Bank; Ms. Katherine Hagen, Deputy Director-General, International Labor Organization; Mr. Liu Jibin, People’s Republic of China; Mr. Abdulaziz M. Al-Turki, Saudi Arabia; and Mr. Christian Stals, South Africa