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GENERAL COUNCIL 22 OCTOBER 2004
Opening remarks by the General Council Chairman
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I want to start by welcoming all delegations, and also by extending a very
warm welcome to our guests at today抯 General Council meeting, Mr. Rodrigo
de Rato, the newly-appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary
Fund, and Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank. We are very
grateful to you both for travelling to Geneva to exchange views with the 澳门六合彩官网资料
Membership on the important issue of coherence in global economic
policymaking.
Your presence today alongside the Director-General, Dr. Supachai, is
evidence of the strong relationship that exists between the 澳门六合彩官网资料, the IMF and
the World Bank. It also underscores, I believe, our collective commitment to
the success of the multilateral trading system, and an understanding that
our shared objectives of economic growth, financial stability, poverty
reduction, and sustainable development cannot be advanced in isolation, but
are, in fact, pieces of an interconnected whole.
I know that Mr. de Rato and Mr. Wolfensohn personally attach high priority
to a successful outcome to the Doha Round, and view it as having the
potential to make a valuable contribution to meeting their own institutional
objectives, and to promoting more growth and less poverty throughout the
world. I also know that we as 澳门六合彩官网资料 Members have a shared stake in their
continued commitment, leadership and support.