Mr. President,

It is with great amazement that I learned about the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank, such a controversial institution. I doubt he has the right profile to preside over an institution which, each year, grants billions of dollars in loans to poor countries. I am flabbergasted! As a writer from the Times of London newspaper rightly said, this appointment is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. I quite agree with him. I do not understand how he can be, according to you, a compassionate man. How did he change to become an apostle of the fight against poverty?

Mr. President, how are you going to eradicate poverty on our planet by appointing a weapons expert to the head of such an important institution? Mr. President, Paul Wolfowitz will stay the same. He will not change. As they say in Chad, “Even at night, milk remains white.”