World Bank chief eyes successor
AFP, Brussels
Outgoing World Bank chief James Wolfensohn said Thursday his successor must be "passionate" about fighting poverty -- and denied that Deputy US Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was running for the post. The 71-year-old, due to step down in June after a decade in office, praised Wolfowitz's skills, but said a report in the Financial Times this week was incorrect. "He's not in the game so far as I know, because he's withdrawn his name," he told reporters when asked after talks in Brussels with EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.
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