US to consider Yunus as WB boss: Mozena

RAJSHAHI NEWS

Rajshahi, Feb 28  The US ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, has said that Washington will give its "fullest consideration" to the candidature of Muhammad Yunus for president of the World Bank.

"I am sure if he agrees to this nomination for this position, it would be given the fullest consideration," Mozena told journalists in the northern city of Rajshahi.

The US envoy's remarks came a week after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, proposed that Yunus be made the chief the Washingon-based bank that has never seen a non-American as its head since its birth after the Second World War.

Hasina floated the idea while meeting a delegation of European MPs in Dhaka on Wednesday.