1. Wide shot, meeting hall as finance ministers arrive for G-20 meeting
2. Med shot, IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky, Korean Finance Minister Yoon Jeung Hyun talking before meeting
3. Med shot, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde
4. Med shot, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
5. Med shot, finance ministers chatting before meeting
6. Med shot, photographers gathered around finance ministers
7. Med shot, seated finance ministers
8. Various shots, photo-op of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at IMF
9. Med shot, photographers
10. Close up, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Robert Zoellick
12. Wide shot, photographers
13. Med shot, Strauss-Kahn, Lagarde, Zoellick
14. Wide shot, end of photo op

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The Group of 20 (G20) Finance Ministers and Bank Governors met on Friday (15 Apr) in Washington at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC.

Financial officials from 187 countries are attending the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF. This year, leaders are stressing the need to bolster a world recovery with job creation, while tackling high debt levels in advanced economies and the threat of overheating in developing economies.

France is chairing the G20 in 2011 and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is chairing the current meeting.

The G20 was established in 1999 to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market.