World Bank Group President travels to Iceland, Brussels and Geneva

Contact:

In Paris: Rachel Winter Jones 33-1-4069-3052

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In Washington: Geetanjali Chopra, (202) 473-0243

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Washington, DC, March 13, 2008 - World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick is traveling to Iceland, Brussels, and Geneva from March 13-17, 2008.

In Iceland, Zoellick will meet ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation and senior officials from Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden.  He will discuss ways in which the World Bank Group can partner with these countries to advance a more inclusive and sustainable globalization. His visit will conclude with a joint press conference with Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.

In Brussels, Zoellick will meet with Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and Charles Michel, Minister for Development Cooperation.  He will also meet with Louis Michel, EC Commissioner for Development, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EC Commissioner for External Relations, and he will participate in the Brussels Forum, organized by the German Marshall Fund.

In Geneva, Zoellick will meet with Juan Somavia, Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and deliver remarks at a session at the ILO Governing Body’s Working Party on the Social Dimension of Globalization, to be held on March 17.

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