In this photo released by the IMF, G-7 Finance Ministers and their Bank Governors pose for a group photograph at the Istanbul Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. Front row, from left to right, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Canadian Finance Minister James Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen, British Finance Minister Alistair Darling, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. Back row, from second left to right, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Junker, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, German Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Russian Central Bank Governor Sergey Ignatiev, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and Egypt's Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

In this photo released by the IMF, G-7 Finance Ministers and their Bank Governors pose for a group photograph at the Istanbul Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. Front row, from left to right, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Canadian Finance Minister James Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen, British Finance Minister Alistair Darling, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. Back row, from second left to right, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Junker, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, German Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Russian Central Bank Governor Sergey Ignatiev, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and Egypt's Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali.

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