World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will visit South Korea next week to discuss cooperation on global agendas, officials here said Friday.
Wolfowitz will be in Seoul Tuesday and Wednesday, meeting South Korean Deputy Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and other senior government officials to discuss poverty reduction, anti-corruption campaigns and development projects for Africa, said Choi Joong-kyung, a South Korean finance ministry official currently dispatched to the World Bank.
Choi will be accompanying the World Bank chief on the visit.
Wolfowitz is also expected to speak on Korea's economic development at a breakfast seminar during his visit.
The last World Bank president to travel to Seoul was James Wolfensohn, who went in February 1998 soon after the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis. Washington, May 26 (Yonhap News)
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