Kosovo to join World Bank and IMF in 2009

Vice-president of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia, Shigeo Katsu announced Kosovo will become a member of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund at the latest by the first half of 2009.

Katsu reiterated that the funds pledged to Kosovo at the Donor Conference in July 2008 have to turn into concrete actions, which would improve the lives of Kosovars.

Kosovo has been invited to attend the annual meetings of both institutions in Washington in October.