Press Communiqué
October 5, 1998
Development Committee Composition
as of October 5, 1998
Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda, Chairman

| Ibrahim Abdul Karim | Bahrain |
| Ibrahim Al-Assaf | Saudi Arabia |
| Eduardo Aninat | Chile |
| Halldor Asgrimsson | Iceland |
| Franz Blankart | Switzerland |
| Carlo A. Ciampi | Italy |
| Peter Costello1 | Australia |
| Rodrigo De Rato Figaredo | Spain |
| Leketekete Victor Ketso | Lesotho |
| Pedro Sampaio Malan | Brazil |
| Paul Martin | Canada |
| Kiichi Miyazawa | Japan |
| N’Goran Niamien | Côte d’Ivoire |
| Fathallah Oualalou | Morocco |
| Robert E. Rubin | United States |
| Clare Short | United Kingdom |
| Yashwant Sinha | India |
| Carl-Dieter Spranger | Germany |
| Dominique Strauss-Kahn | France |
| Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda2 | Thailand |
| Jean-Jacques Viseur | Belgium |
| Xiang Huaicheng | China |
| Mikhail M. Zadornov | Russian Federation |
| Gerrit Zalm3 | Netherlands |
| Ibrahim Abdul Karim | Bahrain |
| Ibrahim Al-Assaf | Saudi Arabia |
| Eduardo Aninat | Chile |
| Halldor Asgrimsson | Iceland |
| Franz Blankart | Switzerland |
| Carlo A. Ciampi | Italy |
| Peter Costello1 | Australia |
| Rodrigo De Rato Figaredo | Spain |
| Leketekete Victor Ketso | Lesotho |
| Pedro Sampaio Malan | Brazil |
| Paul Martin | Canada |
| Kiichi Miyazawa | Japan |
| N’Goran Niamien | Côte d’Ivoire |
| Fathallah Oualalou | Morocco |
| Robert E. Rubin | United States |
| Clare Short | United Kingdom |
| Yashwant Sinha | India |
| Carl-Dieter Spranger | Germany |
| Dominique Strauss-Kahn | France |
| Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda2 | Thailand |
| Jean-Jacques Viseur | Belgium |
| Xiang Huaicheng | China |
| Mikhail M. Zadornov | Russian Federation |
| Gerrit Zalm3 | Netherlands |
Mr. James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Mr. Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Mr. Abdelkrim Harchaoui, Minister of Finance of Algeria and Chairman of the Group of Twenty-Four, addressed the plenary session. Observers from a number of international and regional organizations also attended.
Alternate attending for the member:
Rod Kemp
Mustapa bin Mohamed
Eveline Herfkens