# New Partnerships in Global Development Finance

## Moscow International Conference, February 17-18, 2010

## Ministry of Finance
of the Russian Federation

www.minfin.ru
With support of The World Bank
and the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development

## Medvedev meets with World Bank president

Interfax: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire

BARVIKHA, Moscow region. Feb 16 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has held a meeting with World Bank President Robert Zoellick at his Barkhiva residence outside Moscow.

Addressing today's state of the Russian economy, Medvedev said that "we now feel a little bit better than last year."

"We discussed within the G20 what steps should be taken and how. But, certainly, solutions to all problems have not yet been found. There is still a lot of work to be done to update the international architecture of financial organizations," the Russian president said.

"We have already taken some quite important decisions on quotas. But this process continues. We need to further improve our corporate governance and standards," he said.

The situation is not the same in all countries, Medvedev said.

"I have just held a meeting with the prime minister of Greece. I advised him to ask the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to help Greece to resolve its difficulties," the Russian leader said.

Zoellick, for his part, said that he would attend the Moscow international conference on New Partnerships in Global Development Finance on February 17-18.