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ウォルフォウィッツが世界銀行総裁に！（ＮＹタイムズ）
３月１７日付のＮＹタイムズからです。英文丸投げですが。
世界銀行がウォルフォウィッツ、ＩＭＦがロドリゴ・ラト（アスナール前政権の財務長官）と、やっぱしあくどいヤツがそろうんだよな。こんな所には。さらに世界銀行の総裁をブッシュが「指名する」ってんだから、もうアメリカ何でもアリですね。もっともハナから「米国謀略銀行」ですが。
なおスペインの新聞では（エル・ムンド３月１７日）
http://www.elmundo.es/mundodinero/2005/03/16/internacional/1110985514.html
「ブッシュ、ウォルフォウィッツを世界銀行の総裁として指名」
という見出しです。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/politics/17prexy.html?th
Wolfowitz Gets Bush Nomination for World Bank
By ELIZABETH BECKER and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: March 17, 2005
ASHINGTON, March 16 - President Bush said Wednesday that he planned to nominate Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense and one of the administration's earliest and most outspoken advocates of using American influence to spread democracy around the globe, to become the next president of the World Bank.
While Mr. Wolfowitz has been best known in recent years for his role as one of the architects of the Iraq invasion, his background includes years spent on strategies for development. As the American ambassador to Indonesia, he became engrossed in aid projects and later, as the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, he oversaw the training of numerous students who went on to careers in development.
Mr. Bush cited some of this background in making public his choice of Mr. Wolfowitz at a wide-ranging news conference, saying, "Paul is committed to development," and adding, "He's a compassionate, decent man who will do a fine job." (Excerpts | Full Transcript)
But the announcement comes on the heels of the appointment of John A. Bolton as the new American ambassador to the United Nations and was greeted warily in many foreign capitals where the Iraq conflict and its aftermath remain deeply unpopular.
"The storm of enthusiasm in old Europe is muted," said Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, the German development minister.
Still, initial public responses from several European leaders to the selection of Mr. Wolfowitz were largely positive, including one from President Jacques Chirac of France, who opposed Mr. Wolfowitz and other administration officials on the decision to go to war. Through a spokesman, Mr. Chirac said he would examine Mr. Wolfowitz's candidacy "in a spirit of friendship and bearing in mind the missions of the World Bank."
Yet Mr. Chirac's foreign minister, Michel Barnier, said France would look at Mr. Wolfowitz among "other candidates."
Pentagon and White House officials said that among the names being considered to succeed Mr. Wolfowitz were Stephen A. Cambone, the under secretary of defense for intelligence and one of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's closest advisers, and Gordon R. England, the secretary of the Navy.
Mr. Bush appeared expansive and almost light-hearted at the news conference, and he was clearly reveling in recent developments in Lebanon and Iraq, where he argued that democratization was on the way.
But for the first time he made clear the limits of his patience with Iran, to which he extended modest new offers of American incentives last week to give up its nuclear program. He said it had only one chance to take the deal he has offered along with France, Germany and Britain.
Iran, he said, "must permanently abandon enrichment and reprocessing" of nuclear material, a step the Iranians have so far insisted they will not take. He added: "The understanding is we go to the Security Council if they reject the offer. And I hope they don't."
Yet he set no timelines, and said at the end of his news conference that "there's a certain patience required in order to achieve a diplomatic objective."
William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and a longtime political ally and friend of Mr. Wolfowitz, said he believed the nomination was "totally good."
"Paul is a neoconservative who actually believes in helping countries develop and improve democracies, not just overthrowing dictators," Mr. Kristol said. The United States traditionally picks the head of the World Bank, though the nomination needs approval by its board of directors. While Mr. Wolfowitz seems all but certain to win that approval, his move is likely to have a major effect on the dynamics of the Bush administration, because it removes him from the war cabinet that dominated the first term, and may clear the way for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to take further control of Iraq policy.
Because the World Bank allocates the resources and sets development policy for much of the third world, Mr. Wolfowitz's candidacy to succeed James D. Wolfensohn, the Australian-born investment banker who has headed the bank for the last 10 years, was viewed with some concern by those who consider the deputy secretary's record on postwar reconstruction in Iraq to be a development failure.
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