Prohibition of Political Activities in the Bank's Work Legal Opinion by the Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Article from: TDM 0 (2003), in Roundup of Articles
Introduction
In the Executive Directors' meeting of June 22, 1995, a number of Directors noted that Bank documents increasingly include political statements, or pass political judgments on situations in borrowing countries, and asked for a legal opinion on whether such a practice is consistent with the Bank's Articles of Agreement. In particular, they asked for my views on the "appropriate boundaries" which separate the Bank's mandate from the political affairs in which the Bank and its staff are prohibited from interfering, whether in the Bank's operations or in its documents and publications.1 I ...