Chair Statement on the adoption of the V20 Communique delivered by H.E. Mohammed Amin Adam, Hon. Minister for Finance of Ghana and V20 Chair
V20 MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE XII
16 April 2024
Washington D.C., USA
H.E. Mohammed Amin Adam, Hon. Minister for Finance of Ghana and V20 Chair
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I now draw your attention to the 12th Ministerial Dialogue communique. And I’d like to ask if there are any objections or additional contributions on the draft communique as circulated by the Secretariat.
In the absence of any objections, the Ministerial Dialogue communique is hereby adopted. Congratulations to all of you.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to extend my heartfelt appreciation to all of you for your attendance and inputs in today’s V20 Ministerial Dialogue. A particular note of gratitude to my fellow ministers, G7, G20, G24 representatives, MDBs, and our philanthropic partners.
Special thanks to our host, the World Bank and the team behind the preparations for the Ministerial Dialogue.
Lastly, I want to thank the CVF-V20 Secretariat team for your meticulous work and all the support rendered to the Ghana Presidency, and to the various V20 Ministerial Dialogues. I’d like to also commend the countries that have already developed their Climate Prosperity Plans: Barbados, Ghana, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and to encourage those who have not yet developed their plans to move faster, to work harder to do so. It is only when we have bankable projects that we can leverage all the opportunities out there to support our development efforts in our various countries.
At this juncture, I would like to invite the former V20 Chair, the Honorable Ken Ofori-Atta, who is now serving in the capacity of Senior Presidential Advisor on Finance to the President of Ghana, and is Government of Ghana Special Envoy on International Investment and Capital Markets to make a closing remarks.
Before he does that, let me pay tribute to him as the former Chair of V20 Group. Ken provided visionary leadership to the V20. Very strong leadership, very purposeful leadership. And as a result of his stewardship, V20 achieved a lot.
We achieved a lot in terms of recognition of the V20, in terms of the reforms that he has led us in advocating, particularly in the international global financial architecture. And then also, because of his leadership, issues of climate, debt, and development financing, have been brought to the global map of policy discourse. To this, we owe you gratitude.
I’d like to recognize him with a round of applause.
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