Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has pronounced he is not meddlesome in receiving a helm of a World Bank, as he wants to work during his reason up to amicable business.
In a have a difference released yesterday, he, however, thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for proposing his name for a WB presidency. He described a suggest as “an astonishing great news”.
The microcredit colonize additionally pronounced a budding minister’s suggest as good as outline of his preparation for a pursuit done transparent that a impressions she formerly had about him as good as Grameen Bank no longer existed.
Earlier upon Feb 22, Hasina requested a upon vacation European Parliament commission that a EU put brazen Yunus’s name for a tip upon all sides during a Washington-based anti-poverty lender.
Robert Zoellick, a obligatory boss of a World Bank, will step down during a finish of his five-year tenure upon Jun 30.
In his statement, Yunus pronounced that he had been a unchanging censor of a World Bank for a policies as good as programmes. His critique additionally enclosed a actuality that this bank’s tip upon all sides is regularly indifferent for an American citizen. “But you never had any seductiveness in stepping out of a work that you have dedicated my reason up to, to take up a tip shortcoming of a World Bank.”
The Grameen Bank owner pronounced that in 1995, a afterwards US boss Bill Clinton had requested him to be a WB president, though he declined a offer, observant he would rsther than identical to to combine upon his own work.
Yunus additionally referred to that in 2005, a afterwards budding apportion Khaleda Zia had longed for to deliver his name as cabinet part of ubiquitous of a United Nations. When her bureau approached him for his consent, he conveyed his interjection to a budding apportion as good as pronounced he should instead be authorised to go upon with his work.
In a have a difference yesterday, Yunus voiced goal there would be a “World Social Business Bank” someday soon, as good as if requested, he would take a presidency of that bank with great wish no have a difference what his age cunning be then.
Below is a full content of Prof Yunus’s statement:
My Sincere Thanks to a Honourable Prime Minister
On Feb 22, 2012, Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina done a unequivocally critical suggest about me to a upon vacation European Union’s parliamentary delegation. She due that a EU should put brazen my name as a claimant to spin a subsequent President of a World Bank. She additionally presented a clever have a difference per my cunning for this pursuit to a EU delegation. Since then, there has been a lot of charcterised contention about this suggest in a media.
This suggest was an astonishing great headlines for me. you would identical to to unequivocally appreciate a Honourable Prime Minister for a kind gesticulate that she has shown by requesting to deliver my name for a tip pursuit in such a prestigious as good as successful tellurian institution.
Another special reason for me to be happy upon conference this great headlines is that this suggest itself, as good as a inexhaustible list of my preparation for a pursuit that a Honourable Prime Minister presented to a delegation, have transparent that a impressions she formerly had about me as good as Grameen Bank no longer exist. Now you am carefree that a government’s process towards a Grameen Bank as good as me will be in line with a Prime Minister’s ultimate position. This will mislay a outrageous weight of suffering as good as be endangered from me, additionally from many others in a country.
When a Honourable Prime Minister’s suggest was published in a media, many came brazen expressing their clever await for a proposal. Honourable US Ambassador positive that a US Government would give special care to such a proposal, if you determine to be deliberate for a position. you would identical to to appreciate a US Ambassador as good as all others who upheld a proposal, for their certainty in me.
I never suspicion of receiving up a tip pursuit of a World Bank or any alternative such multi-lateral institutions. you have been a unchanging censor of a World Bank for a policies as good as programs. My critique additionally enclosed a actuality that this Bank’s tip post is regularly indifferent for an American citizen. But you never had any seductiveness in stepping out of a work that you have dedicated my reason up to, to take up a tip shortcoming of a World Bank.
In a past you found myself during a centre of a identical contention about WB tip job. In 1995, President Bill Clinton had invited me to a Oval Office. Among alternative issues, he discussed a purpose of a World Bank as good as asked for my advice. Then he pronounced that a latest boss was to be allocated for World Bank as good as asked possibly you had any seductiveness in this. you sincerely requested him to concede me to combine upon my own work. Later, you gave a outline in my journal “Banker to a Poor” of an engaging talk with an raw American journalist, after my name was referred to in a press as a probable World Bank president.
I was asked by a journalist, what stairs would you take after apropos President of a World Bank. Sensing his disastrous feeling about a proposal, you told a publisher that my initial step would be to pierce a domicile of The World Bank from Washington D. C. to Dhaka, Bangladesh. The publisher was repelled during my response.
President Clinton allocated James D. Wolfensohn as a President of a World Bank. Mr. Wolfensohn substantially was not wakeful of a review you had with President Clinton. After receiving up his upon all sides during a World Bank, Mr. Wolfensohn offering a second tip pursuit in a World Bank, a upon all sides of a single of a Managing Directors during a Bank. you could not accept it either, for a same reason.
In late 2005, a afterwards Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia motionless to commission me for a upon all sides of a Secretary General of The United Nations. you was approached for my consent. According to a UN convention, this post was to go to an Asian in a entrance term. A couple of European as good as Asian countries were enlivening me to get meddlesome in a position. When approached for my determine by a bureau of a Prime Minister, you conveyed my interjection to a Honourable Prime Minister for her affability in wanting to commission me for this post as good as requested her to let me go upon with my work. The Prime Minister’s bureau followed up with a ask a array of times upon this matter. But you could not shift my mind.Those who have been feeling speedy by a benefaction suggest from a Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, competence spin unhappy with me that you am not giving significance to such a large event for a country. you am requesting them to cruise my situation as good as have magnetism for my position.
All my life, you have dedicated myself to do things in my own way, as good as do things that you suspicion critical for me to do. Making a universe wakeful of a intensity of amicable business, a successful doing of amicable business, creation a subsequent era opposite a creation assured about a destiny of amiability as good as enlivening them to take a care in formulating a new, as good as improved world, is a work that you am endangered in. you wish to sojourn utterly focused to these tasks. you goal a tiny time soon, there will be a “World Social Business Bank” as good as this bank will have an critical purpose in elucidate a elemental economic, amicable as good as environmental problems faced by a universe today. When this bank is created, if someone requests me to take a Presidency of a bank, I’ll accept that shortcoming with great pleasure, no have a difference what my age will be during that indicate of time.