The US Treasury has announced that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will attend the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Washington on the 20th.
Until now, if Russia attended, it had indicated that it would be absent from the meeting, but this has been revised.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is important for the G20 = the first ministerial meeting of 20 major countries since Russia's military invasion of Ukraine on the 20th. Announced that he will attend the discussion.
On the 6th of this month, Secretary Yelen said he would be absent from many meetings if Russia attended the G20 meeting and called for Russia to be eliminated. Attention was focused on the response of the United States because he showed the prospect of attending.
"It is important for Yellen to attend with allies and friends to support Ukraine. We cannot stop our attendance in Russia," a senior U.S. Treasury official told reporters. , It is a form of reviewing the intention of absenteeism.
Meanwhile, the US Treasury has also announced that during the meeting, Secretary Yelen will meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Japan's Finance Minister Suzuki, who will visit Washington.
World Bank's global economic growth outlook revised downwards
On the 18th, the World Bank lowered the outlook for the growth rate of the world economy to 3.2%, which is 0.9 points lower than the forecast three months ago, in response to the rise in energy and food prices triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It was revealed that it was revised downward.
He also stated that he would consider financial support of 170 billion dollars and about 21 trillion yen in Japanese yen in order to respond to the crisis such as global food shortage.