HIGHLIGHTS: World leaders head for G20 in London

Thu Apr 2, 2009 1:12am BST
 
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LONDON (Reuters) - Following are quotes from world leaders, finance ministers and other policymakers as they head for a summit in London to discuss the global financial crisis.

IMF CHIEF DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES

"You never recover before the cleaning up of the banking sector has been done.

"The U.S. ... is rightly insisting on stimulus and the EU rightly insisting on regulation. They are not yet moving quickly enough in doing the cleaning up of the financial system."

US TREASURY SECRETARY TIM GEITHNER ON G20

"We're seeing very strong support around the world for the need for a very powerful response to this crisis, on the need to bring recovery back as quickly as possible, fix our financial systems, expand markets for trade and investment around the world and reform this financial system so that we have in place stronger. smarter, 21st century rules for our marketplace," he told Bloomberg Television.

"I've never seen this much support around the world, this much cooperation this early in a crisis, I think, in history.

ON U.S. CAR INDUSTRY:

"We want to build a stronger U.S. automobile industry and that's gong to require very significant restructuring.  Continued...

 
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