The US President George W Bush stated that the leaders from the top global economies have decided to advance the financial processes and assist more completely to keep the global monetary financial meltdown from getting worse. He also stated that "One of the key achievements was to establish certain principles and take certain actions for adapting our financial systems to the realities of the 21st century," in a press meet after the conference.

He marked that one of the premium features which was arrived at during the conference was to "decline protectionism and be away from creating new trade barriers."

The European Union is one of the significant players in the conference, President Bush also highly praised the achievement of the EU, which can be summarized down to four principles- a synchronized and concentrated stimulus by using the budgetary approaches to support the demand and the increase of monetary help to developing and emerging countries. 

A new discipline for monetary markets to avoid a similar problem from happening over again; a world monetary governance which is more acceptable to developing and emerging countries for more a lot of justice and capacity; and a refusal of protectionism and openness toward required exchanges.

Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President stated "I was very happy with the results of summit," at a joint press conference along with Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President on Saturday afternoon. "It has laid the foundation for the future." He added.

Nicolas Sarkozy at present is the chairman in the EU, he is the current chairman on the basis of rotation chairmanship.  He added that “It was the first time ever for various countries to be gathering together in Washington D.C. to agree on the policies and executive plans on how to overcome solve the global economic crisis.”

For developing economies, many found the conference to be chances to exhibit their concerns.  Guido Mantega, the Finance Minister of Brazil, told reporters post conference that Brazil was happy since the conference "makes something viable that was not possible before."

India, which is one of the huge developing economies in the world made a positive response to the conference. Manmohan Singh, The Indian Prime Minister stressed the international community to consider exclusive start up programs to balance the shrinkage of capital influx to developing countries, and he called for variations required in the world financial climate to prevent the existing monetary crisis from recurring.