Wolfensohn, currently on a two-day visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, met the country's top officials in Sarajevo and later told reporters that the World Bank had developed an exceptional partnership with Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past few years.
We have so far secured more than a billion dollars in aid to Bosnia-Herzegovina, an additional 100 million in investments in companies and another 500 million for various reconstruction projects, the World Bank president said.
He said that the aim of the World Bank was to assist the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina in building a stable joint state after the war.
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Adnan Terzic, said that it would have been difficult to achieve the present level of postwar reconstruction without the support of the World Bank.
In his address to the lower house of the Bosnian Parliament on Tuesday, Wolfensohn said that a USD97 million programme of aid to social reforms and infrastructure reconstruction projects worth USD20 million were launched this summer.