Speeches
Deputy Prime Minister Babacan hosted G20 Ambassadors in Ankara at a Working Lunch
Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Members of Media, you are all very welcome. Today, we want to have a consultation meeting with the ambassadors and the representatives of the G-20 countries as well as international organizations that are represented around the G-20 table. As you have been following, we assumed the Presidency of the G-20 in the beginning of December 2014. Our Deputies and Sherpas already met in December for the first time to make the preparations for the whole year and we are going to be having a very first ministerial meeting, the Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Istanbul, in two weeks from now. We have invited all of our colleagues and I know that most of them will be available to be here. Then we will be having our second ministerial meeting in the margins of the Spring Meetings of World Bank and IMF. Then...
Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan’s Speech at the G20 Sherpa Meeting
Welcome to Istanbul, welcome to Turkey. It’s our great pleasure to have you all here in this splendid city. This will be the very first Sherpa meeting that is going to be taking place under Turkish Presidency. I hope this meeting becomes a productive one and I also hope that you have some time to see the beauties of Istanbul as well. I’m very happy that our Sherpa, Ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu, has come to Turkey recently from her posts as Ambassador in different countries and she is going to be coordinating the Sherpa track on our behalf all throughout this process. She is fully charged to make this process a successful one. So, we wish both Ambassador Sinirlioğlu and each of you success during this heavy working period. Maybe just a few words about our Presidency and what we are up to. First of all, looking back, I view...
Turkey’s G20 Sherpa Ambassador Ayşe Sinirlioğlu addressed B20’s Inaugural Event Dinner
Mr. Hisarcıklıoğlu, President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges Members of the B20 Turkey Executive Committee, Distinguished representatives of the business community, Dear colleagues, First of all, on behalf of the Sherpa group I would like to express our appreciation for the B20 taking the initiative to organize this event. As you all know, Turkey has the honor of assuming the important responsibility to steer the work of the G20 for one year. Reflecting its informal nature, the G20 does not have a permanent secretariat. Instead, the G20 Presidency is responsible for bringing together the G20 agenda in consultation with other members and in response to developments in the global economy. Since the Toronto Summit in 2010, the B20 has played an important role in the G20 process. The B20 offers a real economy perspective to G20 deliberations and provides practical recommendations to support the G20 agenda...
Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan’s Speech at the G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting
Welcome, welcome to Istanbul, welcome to Turkey. It’s our great pleasure and honor to have you all here, for our very first G20 official meeting during our Presidency, during Turkish Presidency. Deputies from G20 countries, as well as representatives of international organizations are here with us. I wish you a very successful two days of meetings, which will be the kick-off meetings. So, I just wanted to stop by and see you here in Istanbul to give you a little bit idea about our government’s approach and also the priorities, which have been already discussed, which have been already communicated. I can say that 2014 has been very very fruitful thanks to our Australian colleagues. They did an excellent job. They have taken over the agenda items and pushed through many important subjects with concrete outcomes and deliverables. I hope that throughout our Presidency, G20 will continue to be...
