USA: ANTI GLOBALISATIONS PROTESTORS BEGIN TO GATHER OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND HEADQUARTERS WHERE GROUP OF 10/ IMF ARE MEETING

Record ID: 649277

  • Title: USA: ANTI GLOBALISATIONS PROTESTORS BEGIN TO GATHER OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND HEADQUARTERS WHERE GROUP OF 10/ IMF ARE MEETING
  • Date: 21st April 2002
  • Summary: (W5) WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (21 APRIL 2002) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV HEAD OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK WIM DUISENBERG ENTERING MEETING ROOM 0.08 2. SMV OFFICIALS TALKING 0.12 3. SMV BELGIAN FINANCE MINISTER DIDIER REYNERS MOVING IN FROM RIGHT TO SHAKE HANDS WITH COLLEAGUE 0.19 4. WIDE/ PAN OF CONFERENCE TABLE 0.25 5. CLOSE OF FRENCH DELEGATION 0.30 6. SMV UNITED STATES DELEGATION 0.35 7. SMV HEAD OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK WIM DUISENBERG TALKING WITH COLLEAGUE (MAN WITH WHITE HAIR TO RIGHT OF PICTURE IS DUISENBERG) 0.38 (W5) WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (21 APRIL 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. ZOOM OUT OF POLICE SEATED ON PAVEMENT BEHIND RAILINGS 0.48 9. GV HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD 0.51 10. VARIOUS, SMALL GATHERING OF PROTESTERS 0.58 11. VARIOUS, OF POLICE LOOKING ON THEN MOVING FORWARD 1.15 12. SMALL GROUP OF ANARCHIST PROTESTERS MOVING OFF/ ATTEMPTING TO COVER CAMERA WITH HANDS/ CLOSE UP OF ANARCHIST FLAG (2 SHOTS) 1.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th May 2002 13:00
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  • Location: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAC9IYKQGJN8UHMO5Y5OWM7LM1K
  • Story Text: Anti-globalisation protesters began to gather outside
    IMF headquarters as the Group of 10 Ministers met on the third
    day of the IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington.



    Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the
    Group of Ten member countries met in Washington on Sunday
    (April 21) as police outside police blocked off the streets
    and set up a large security perimeter around the groups'
    downtown headquarters.

    The G-10 meeting was expected to discuss crisis points
    such as Argentina and measures to impede the global financial
    slowdown.

    The Washington police force have said they
    anticipated demonstrations against globalization, the U.S.-led
    war on terrorism, and Israeli military actions in the West
    Bank on Sunday ( April 21).

    A small group of black-clad protesters arrived promptly
    at their designated demonstration area and held an uneventful
    demonstration against the International Monetary Fund ( IMF)
    and its sister organisation the World Bank.

    The protesters blame organisations like the IMF and
    World Bank for sinking small economically depressed countries
    into deeper poverty.

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