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| 2003 | December 29, World Bank President James Wolfensohn outlines the challenges ahead in the coming year...more
| James Wolfensohn was the first World Bank president to address the United Nations General Assembly, which met October 29-30, 2003, in a High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development...more.
|  In his opening address at the 2003 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Dubai, September 23, 2003, President Wolfensohn said that there is a need for a new balance between developed and developing countries on aid and trade...more.
| Welcoming reporters September 19, 2003 to the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings getting underway in Dubai, President Wolfensohn said that the gathering would focus on crucial development challenges facing the Middle East...more.
Video: Windows Media & RealVideo, Transcript.
| September 15-16 -  The Bank President met in Paris with 100 young people from 70 countries, participating in a working conference on development and peace more
| President Wolfensohn expressed shock and deep regret at the August 19 attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad, saying "all in the Bank family express unity with our colleagues in the UN system." The UN headquarters houses UN, IMF and World Bank offices…more
| During a visit to Kenya, which included meetings with the H.E. President Mwai Kibaki and Cabinet Members, Mr. Wolfensohn addressed a July 23 Anti-Corruption Symposium in Nairobi, praising the new administration’s commitment to fighting the corruption which has hindered the country’s development and calling on its citizens to seize this opportunity for action. Click here for speech.
|  On July 1, at a conference in Budapest on the challenges facing Roma in an expanding Europe, President Wolfensohn welcomed a new initiative endorsed by leaders of central and southeastern Europe: a Decade of Roma inclusion and a Roma Education Fund.
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| | |  On July 30 - President Wolfensohn visited Baghdad to review progress on the development needs assessment. Wolfensohn traveled to Iraq at the invitation of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General Sergio Vieira de Mello and met with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority and with the 25 members of the new Governing Council…more
| During a visit to Kenya, which included meetings with the H.E. President Mwai Kibaki and Cabinet Members, Mr. Wolfensohn addressed a July 23 Anti-Corruption Symposium in Nairobi, praising the new administration’s commitment to fighting the corruption which has hindered the country’s development and calling on its citizens to seize this opportunity for action. Click here for speech.
| July 1 - At a conference in Budapest on the challenges facing Roma in an expanding Europe, President Wolfensohn welcomed a new initiative endorsed by leaders of central and southeastern Europe: a Decade of Roma inclusion and a Roma Education Fund.
video or read transcript.
| June 12 - Mr. Wolfensohn addressed the annual meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee (transcript), a Washington-based non-profit group organized to increase public understanding of role of the IMF, the World Bank and the regional development banks. Other speakers included U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Andrew Natsios, Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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|  | | June 8-9 - Mr. Wolfensohn met with chief executives to discuss growth outlook in developing countries, opportunities and services provided by the Bank Group to private firms, and development in the Middle East at the 5th CEO Gathering at the World Bank. |
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|  | | June 1 - President James Wolfensohn, along with the chiefs of the UN, IMF, and WTO and leaders of 13 developing countries participated in an "enlarged dialogue" at the meeting of G8 heads of state in Evian, France. |
| |  | | May 20 - The sixth German World Bank Forum in Bonn brought together opinion leaders to discuss Promoting the Knowledge Economy. "The digital gap cannot be quickly overcome, but knowledge transfer and its fair distribution is a basic condition for world peace," President Wolfensohn said at the Forum.
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| | | IMay 19 - In an address to the European Parliament, Mr. Wolfensohn said that quotas and import levies on agricultural products are blocking trade from poor countries. | |
|  | | May 15-16 - The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) - Europe took place in Paris. President Wolfensohn said the international community could learn from Brazil’s experience of uniting diverse actors for the common goal of fighting poverty. Recalling commitments by rich and poor countries at recent international conferences in Doha, Monterrey and Johannesburg, he said: "We have the words right. Now is the moment of action." For more information on the ABCDE conference, including video broadcasts of the proceedings, click here. |
| | May 13 - At the WTO General Council meeting on coherence on, WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler and President Wolfensohn made a joint statement. They appealed to the G-8 leaders to "provide the political guidance that is needed to allow the trade negotiations to move forward again before the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún in September." Click here for Wolfensohn's statement to the meeting. | |  |
| IMF/WB Spring Meetings "The purpose of these meetings is to retain attention on the other war which is going on - the war against poverty," said Bank President Jim Wolfensohn at the start of IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings held in Washington DC on April 11 to 13. For more information: | |  | | March 8-10 - Mr. Wolfensohn visited Greece where he represented the Bank at the fourth Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank held this year in Athens, Greece. While in Athens, he was awarded the The Medal of the City of Athens from the city’s mayor Dora Bakoyanni, had a bilateral meeting with Minsiter of Economy and Finance Nikolaos Christodoulakis, and also had a number of meetings with press representatives.
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|  | | February 24-25 - The High-Level Forum on Harmonization in Rome looked at ways to improve and streamline aid coordination. "I don't think any of us is thinking anymore about running development programs from Washington or other capitals... what we are now seeking to do is to listen, to simplify, to harmonize, to follow, to lead, to do whatever is necessary in the situation involving development," said Mr. Wolfensohn in his remarks. |
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