G20 Summit: Gordon Brown press conference

G20 Summit: Gordon Brown press conference; Gordon Brown speech continued SOT - Fourth, alongside these extra resources we will ask the international institutions to strengthen their independent surveillance of the world economy and to promote growth and the reduction of poverty/ We are agreed that the mandates of these institutions that were created in 1945 must now be reformed to make them more accountable, more representative and more effective, and this includes giving emerging markets and developing countries greater voice and greater representation/ And we will also enable the heads and senior staff of these institutions to be appointed on merit - Fifth, we are going to act decisively to kick start international trade/ Trade is the crucial driver of growth in the global economy/ We are agreed to work urgently with leaders discussing, meeting and preparing for a conclusion to the Doha trade round and this has the potential to boost the global economy substantially - To address what is a huge shortfall in finance for trade – 90 per cent of all trade depends on this finance – we have today agreed to make available not the 100 billion which was originally called for, but 250 billions of trade finance/ This will be provided over the next two years through our export, credit and investment agencies and through the multilateral development banks, and this will include 50 billions through the new World Bank programme that is being established - We will act also to make our global recovery fair and more sustainable/ This time of financial crisis is no time to walk away from our commitment to the world's poorest/ So when people are suffering and yet it is within our capacity to help we will not pass by on the other side/ We remain firmly committed to meeting our Millennium Development Goals and our pledges on aid/ And to deal with this crisis for the poorest countries, we have asked the International Monetary Fund to bring forward proposals to use the p...