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Finance ministers of the world's leading industrialized

and developing countries, the G20,

have agreed to continue supporting the global economic recovery.

In a statement released after their meeting in Scotland,

the ministers said conditions had improved,

but economic and financial recovery was uneven

and unemployment a worry.

Andrew Walker reports.

The communiqué avoids complacency.

Although economic and financial conditions have improved,

they decided they still need to keep up the initiatives

intended to restore growth.

The meeting was, however,

rather overshadowed by a statement

from the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown,

suggesting a tax on financial transactions

as one of a number of options for making banks

pay for the CRIsis. His calls have been received politely

by the finance ministers

but several made remarks which suggest

that other ways of tackling the problem

are rather more likely to be adopted.