Brown: Recession far from over
Gordon Brown and Barack Obama at the G20
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Friday, 25, Sep 2009 05:30
By Richard James.
Gordon Brown has declared today that the recession is far from over, warning the path to economic recovery remains fragile and fraught.
Speaking after a bilateral meeting with US president Barack Obama at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, the prime minister said: "The recession is not over. It is not automatic we are going to recover.
"The path to recovery is still very fragile - fragile in the banking system, fragile in the way different economies find difficulties as they move forward."
Mr Brown also unveiled plans to set international economic targets, creating a "blue-print for global growth".
He said the world's economy had been saved from sinking from recession into a great depression thanks to the efforts taken by nations agreed at the G20 summit in London in April.
Mr Brown declared the G20, not the G8, was now the foremost international economic forum, with this week's summit formally seeing more power handed to the developing nations with regard global matters.
Backing the decision to pump billions of pounds into the UK economy, the prime minister said the time was not right to start removing fiscal stimuli.
He defiantly told reporters in Pittsburgh that the action to stimulate the economy had worked.
The summit, however, has been completely overshadowed by the warning issued to Iran over its nuclear programme.