MEXICO CITY Feb 25 (Reuters) – A meeting of BRICS
major emerging countries discussed the selection process of the
next head of the World Bank and emphasized it should be open to
all countries, rejecting the tradition that the job
automatically goes to an American, a senior BRIC official said
on Saturday.
The official, speaking after a meeting of the BRICS –
Russia, South Africa, Brazil, India and China – said the United
States had not circulated the name of its proposed candidate for
the World Bank.
Asked whether emerging economies could field their own
candidate for the post, the official said: “That is certainly a
discussion we will have.”
(Reporting By Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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