Brasilia - Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the Brics group
of emerging market countries is likely to make a joint decision on who
to support for the World Bank presidency as soon as Friday.
Mantega
said the five countries were still discussing which candidate they
would support. The Brics group also includes Russia, India, China and
South Africa.
“Brazil is talking with the Brics and we will
likely take a joint position,” Mantega told reporters in Brasilia. “The
position is likely to be taken today (Friday).”
The candidates
include former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, who
visited Brazil on Thursday, as well as Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala and US nominee Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American health
expert.