WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Sunday that leaders of the G20 major global economies would send a "strong message of unity" this week on confronting the world economic crisis.
"With respect to the stimulus, there is going to be an accord that G20 countries will do what is necessary to promote trade and growth," Obama told the Financial Times newspaper. "The most important task for all of us is to deliver a strong message of unity in the face of the crisis."
Obama said he believed the world economy needed both stimulus and regulatory reform, and he called for G20 leaders to take "serious steps" to address toxic assets on their domestic bank balance sheets.