Text of G-7 economic plan of action!
WASHINGTON - October 10, 2008 -
Text of G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors' plan of action, as
provided by the Treasury Department:
The G-7 agrees today that the
current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue
working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit,
to support global economic growth. We agree to:
- Take decisive action and use all available tools to support systemically important financial institutions and prevent their failure.
- Take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit and money markets and ensure that banks and other financial institutions have broad access to liquidity and funding.
- Ensure that our banks and other major financial intermediaries, as needed, can raise capital from public as well as private sources, in sufficient amounts to re-establish confidence and permit them to continue lending to households and businesses.
- Ensure that our respective national deposit insurance and guarantee programs are robust and consistent so that our retail depositors will continue to have confidence in the safety of their deposits.
- Take action, where appropriate, to restart the secondary markets for mortgages and other securitized assets. Accurate valuation and transparent disclosure of assets and consistent implementation of high quality accounting standards are necessary.
The actions should be taken in ways that protect
taxpayers and avoid potentially damaging effects on other countries. We will
use macroeconomic policy tools as necessary and appropriate. We strongly
support the IMF's critical role in assisting countries affected by this
turmoil. We will accelerate full implementation of the Financial Stability
Forum recommendations and we are committed to the pressing need for reform of
the financial system. We will strengthen further our cooperation and work with
others to accomplish this plan.
