media advisory
friends of the earth international
wolfowitz: terrible choice for world bank
president
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March 16, 2005, Washington , DC --
Friends of the Earth International
today condemned President Bush's
nomination of U.S. Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz to head the
World Bank, the world's leading
multilateral lending institution.
Friends of the Earth called for the
rejection of Wolfowitz's candidacy as
the next World Bank President.
“This is a terrible choice,” said
David Waskow, Director of the
International Program at Friends of the
Earth-United States. “At a time of
immense global challenges, Wolfowitz
has no relevant expertise in
alleviating poverty or addressing
critical environmental issues like
global warming. He is the wrong
person for this job.”
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“There's never been a time when the world
was in greater need of cooperative
leadership,” Waskow added. “Instead, Bush has
put forward one of the principal architects
of his administration's unilateralist
policies. Wolfowitz has shown nothing
but disdain for collaboration with other
countries. How's he going to run the
World Bank, and to what end?”
Janneke Bruil, Co-Coordinator,
International Financial Institutions Program
for Friends of the Earth International said,
“The World Bank is an international
institution that touches the lives of
billions of people around the world. The
process of choosing its leader should be open
and transparent. But by making this decision
behind closed doors, the World Bank has yet
again failed miserably to uphold democracy,”
she added.
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