Wolfowitz vows to steer World Bank as a global institution

Wolfowitz vows to steer World Bank as a global institution

WASHINGTON, United States - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who has been nominated as the next president of the World Bank, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the Defense Department on the outskirts of Washington on March 21.

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