Japan's Aso Backs Dollar-Centred Currency System
"We should firmly maintain the dollar-centered currency system," Aso was quoted by a Japanese government official as telling a global summit on the world financial crisis.
"There is a voice questioning if it's stable for the U.S. dollar of the world's largest-debt country to continue to be a key currency," Aso said.
"But our prime minister stressed that no currency but the dollar can be used as a key currency," the government official told reporters.
Ahead of the summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the U.S. dollar can no longer claim to be the sole world currency. "We cannot continue into the 21st century with a system (established) in the 20th century," he said.
Since the end of World War II, the dollar has effectively been the world's reserve currency, used across the board and thereby giving the U.S. immense influence in the global economic system.
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November 15, 2008 15:38 ET (20:38 GMT)
Publié le 15 novembre 2008 Copyright © 2008 Dowjones
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