LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday that he will try to forge a global pact to buck the global economic downturn during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama this week.
Brown travels to Washington for a meeting with Obama on Tuesday and will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Writing in London’s Sunday Times, Brown said that all nations should agree to inject cash into their economies, sign up to universal banking reforms and back an overhaul of international institutions.
“I believe there is no challenge so great or so difficult that it cannot be overcome by America, Britain and the world working together,” Brown wrote. “That is why President Obama and I will discuss this week a global new deal, whose impact can stretch from the villages of Africa to reforming the financial institutions of London and New York — and giving security to the hardworking families in every country.”
The Associated Press
