[stop-imf] IMF Board Receives Managing Director Nominations

[Robert Weissman]

Press Release No. 00/10 
 February 23, 2000

International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20431 USA

                    IMF Board Receives Managing Director Nominations

On Tuesday, February 22, 2000, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF)
Executive Board received the first formal
nominations for the post of the next Managing Director of the IMF. 

Mr. Stanley Fischer, IMF First Deputy Managing Director, and currently
Acting Managing Director, was nominated for
the post by Mr. Jose Pedro de Morais, Jr., the Executive Director
representing Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Mr. Eisuke Sakakibara, former Vice Minister of Finance Finance for
International Affairs in the Ministry of Finance of
Japan, was nominated by Mr. Yukio Yoshimura, Executive Director for Japan. 

Executive Directors are in consultation with their respective authorities
on the nominations received.

Statements by the Executive Directors will be posted shortly on the IMF's
website (http://www.imf.org).