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U.S. Opposition to World Bank Financing of Relocating Chinese Farmers in Tibet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

Sean D. Murphy
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 371 - 373
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2000

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References

1 World Bank Press Release on World Bank Approves China Western Poverty Reduction Project, No. 99/2282/EAP (June 24,1999), available in <http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/2282.htm> (comment of World Bank regional vice president for East Asia and the Pacific, Jean-Michel Severino); see World Bank, China Western Poverty Reduction Project: Summary Paper (June 2, 1999), available in <http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/offrep/eap/projects/china/wprp/chindex.htm>.

2 International Campaign for Tibet, Request for Inspection: China Western Poverty Reduction Project (June 18, 1999). Materials of the ICT are available in <http://www.savetibet.org/action/worldbank.html/>.

3 International Campaign for Tibet, Response to World Bank “Summary Paper” on “Project C”: China Western Poverty Reduction Project, 1 (June 8, 1999).

4 Id. at 10.

5 For background on the World Bank Inspection Panel, see IBRAHIM F. I. SHIHATA, T he WORLD BANKlNSPECTION PANEL (1994). See also Conclusions of the Secon d Review of the W orld Bank Inspection Panel (Apr. 20,1999), 39 ILM 249 (2000). Inform ation may be found on line in <http://www.worldbank.org/html/ins-panel/>.

6 IBRD Resolution No. 93-10/IDAResolution No. 93-6, para. 12 (Sept. 22,1993), reprintedinSHIHATA, supranote 5, at 127.

7 For background on the W orld Bank, including relations with the U nited States, see BARTRAM STEWART Brown, The U nited States and th e Politicization of th e World Bank: Issues of International Law and Policy (1992); Catherine Gwin, U.S. Relations w ith th e World Bank 1945-1992 (1994); Ibrahim F. I. Shihata, The WORLD BaNKINACHANGINGWorld (1991). C urrent inform ation on voting representation appears as an appendix to the W orld B ank’s annual report. WORLD Bank, The WORLD Bank Annual Report 1999193-95 (1999), available in <http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/about/voting.htm>.

8 David E. Sanger, China to Get World Bank Loan Despite U.S. Objections, N.Y. TIMES, June 25, 1999, atA l.

9 World Bank Press Release, supra note 1 (comment of World Bank president and chairman of the Board of Directors,James D. Wolfensohn).

10 World Bank Press Release on China Western Poverty Reduction Project Investigation Panel to Complete Interviews (Jan. 10,2000), auaiiaMe m <http://www.worldbank.org.html/ins-panel/chinaJanuary102000.html>