New Delhi
May 1 (PTI)
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will leave for the Vietnamese capital Hanoi on Tuesday to attend ADB's 44th annual meeting during which Ministers of several countries including France and Japan will deliberate on ways to deal with rising food and fuel prices.
The annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank is being held at a time when the sky rocketing commodity and fuel prices is threatening to push more and more people below poverty.
Besides Mukherjee, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and her Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda are also scheduled to join ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda and the IMF's Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara in the deliberations.
In all about 3,000 leaders, experts and officials from governments, the private sector, academia, media and civil society are expected to participate in the four-day annual conference of the ADB beginning May 3.
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