[00:00.00]Finance ministers of the world's leading industrialized
[00:03.24]and developing countries, the G20,
[00:05.23]have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery.
[00:08.58]In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland,
[00:11.63]the ministers said conditions had improved,
[00:14.18]but economic and financial recovery was uneven
[00:17.11]and unemployment a worry.
[00:18.79]Andrew Walker reports.
[00:20.03]The communiqué avoids complacency.
[00:21.90]Although economic and financial conditions have improved,
[00:25.07]they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives
[00:27.93]intended to restore growth.
[00:29.30]The meeting was, however,
[00:30.67]rather overshadowed by a statement
[00:32.53]from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
[00:34.40]suggesting a tax on financial transactions
[00:37.07]as one of a number of options for making banks
[00:39.31]pay for the crisis. His calls have been received politely
[00:40.93]by the finance ministers
[00:43.98]but several made remarks which suggest
[00:45.84]that other ways of tackling the problem
[00:47.90]are rather more likely to be adopted.

Finance ministers of the world's leading industrialized
and developing countries, the G20,
have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery.
In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland,
the ministers said conditions had improved,
but economic and financial recovery was uneven
and unemployment a worry.
Andrew Walker reports.
The communiqué avoids complacency.
Although economic and financial conditions have improved,
they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives
intended to restore growth.
The meeting was, however,
rather overshadowed by a statement
from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
suggesting a tax on financial transactions
as one of a number of options for making banks
pay for the crisis. His calls have been received politely
by the finance ministers
but several made remarks which suggest
that other ways of tackling the problem
are rather more likely to be adopted.