Source: CCTV.com

02-06-2009 13:39

Special Report:   Global Financial Crisis

The heads of five international financial organizations pledged on Thursday to strengthen their cooperation to help the global economy and said governments should resist protectionist tendencies.

Director-General Juan Somavia of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank President Robert Zoellick and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L-R) address a news conference following a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin February 5, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)
Director-General Juan Somavia of the International Labour 
Organisation (ILO), Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World
Trade Organization (WTO), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 
Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank President 
Robert Zoellick and International Monetary Fund (IMF) 
Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (LR) address a news
conference following a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin
February 5, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)

The institutions said in a joint statement that despite the troubled state of the global economy, all countries have a duty to resist protectionist tendencies and work toward a tangible further opening of world trade.

The signatories were the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the OECD and the International Labor Organization who had met German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin.

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