{"id":533765,"date":"2026-04-16T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:29:11","slug":"11-nations-urge-coordinated-economic-support-amid-mideast-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533765\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Nations Urge ‘Coordinated’ Economic Support Amid Mideast War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The finance ministers of 11 countries including Britain and Japan called Wednesday for \u201ccoordinated emergency support\u201d to help countries hit by disruptions from the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on the IMF and World Bank to provide a coordinated emergency support offer for countries in need, tailored to country circumstances and drawing on the full range and flexibility of their toolkits,\u201d the ministers said in a joint statement issued by the UK government.<\/p>\n

\u201cRenewed hostilities, a widening of the conflict or continued disruption in the Strait of Hormuz would pose serious additional risks to global energy security, supply chains, and economic and financial stability,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with a durable resolution of the conflict,\u202fimpacts on growth, inflation and markets will persist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reaffirm our unwavering support for Ukraine and our determination to maintain economic pressure on Russia,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia\u2019s war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year, continues to negatively impact the global economy. Russia must not benefit from this conflict, and as market conditions allow to avoid exacerbating disruptions to supply chains and energy prices, we will continue collaborating on ways to increase pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The countries that signed the statement were Australia, Finland, Ireland, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s finance minister Rachel Reeves, who was attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank\u2019s spring meetings in Washington, reaffirmed her country\u2019s willingness to play its part to ensure free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and the French President Emmanuel Macron are hosting talks in Paris on Friday this week about how we can, when there is a ceasefire, a proper ceasefire, how we can help that navigation through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d she said at a forum organized by CNBC television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finance ministers of 11 countries including Britain and Japan called Wednesday for \u201ccoordinated emergency support\u201d to help…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,386,632,50,229,56,54,55,636],"class_list":["post-533765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-japan","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}