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Delegates of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) gather at the spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2011. Principals seated in the front row are, from left to right: Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Mexico's Secretary of Finance Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, Japan's Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMFC Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the Minister of Finance of Singapore, Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, South Africa's Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, and Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)