[lbo-talk] Inter-Booge Spooge

[Kevin Robert Dean]

"Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said yesterday that he
wants the meetings [of top economic policymakers from
around the world], which bring together member countries of
the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, to direct
the two institutions to begin work promptly on assessing
Iraq's need for aid and how they might provide it. But
World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn said that in the
absence of a United Nations resolution affording legitimacy
to a new authority in Baghdad, the bank can't even send a
mission to Iraq unless its major shareholder countries give
the go-ahead -- a stance that drew a rebuke from Snow, who
pronounced himself 'baffled.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5281-2003Apr10.html
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