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Finance ministers from leading industrialized nations has vowed to continue epic deficit spending to bolster a fragile global recovery at the end of G7 talks in Canada's far north.
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told a closing press conference that he and his G7 counterparts "need to continue to deliver the stimulus to which we are mutually committed, and look ahead to exit strategies."
Measures to shore up the global economy have proved costly, and while the world's richest nations have promoted diverging economic and financial policies, the ministers agreed that investing in their economies remained vital in order to avoid backsliding.
"We have to make sure as not to undermine the global recovery," said US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. "We're absolutely committed to maintaining support for our
economies until the recovery is firmly established," echoed Alistair Darling, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
"We achieved a lot in 2009," he said. "The risk of 2010 is the world will forget just how serious the situation was and what more remains to be done."
Concern over soaring public debts, which cast doubt on the recovery and caused market turmoil in recent days, was to top the agenda but ended up being pigeonholed at the talks, which presented no new directions for the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
The G7 nations' combined debt has reached a whopping 30 trillion dollars amid rabid spending to keep their economies afloat over the last year.
