The Finance Ministers of the seven industrialized nations and the EU
president gather for a group photo, at Blair House in Washington April
12, 2003. From L-R are: John Manley of Canada; Gordon Brown of the
United Kingdom; John Snow of the U.S.; Hans Eichel of Germany; Nikolaus
Christodoulakis, European Union president; Guilio Tremonti of Italy;
Francis Mer of France and Masajuro Shiokawa of Japan. With political
nerves on edge about Iraq's future, global finance chiefs gathered in
Washington at the weekend to consider how to help rebuild the
war-ravaged country and to pump up their own economies. REUTERS/Brendan
McDermid

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