MANUAL, KOEHLER AND WOLFENSOHN ADDRESS CLOSING IMF AND WORLD BANK MEETING, 2000-09-28 (photo)

Australian-born US citizen James Wolfensohn (R) Horst Koehler of Germany, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Trevor Manual of South Africa, chairman of this year's IMF preside over the closing news conference of this year`s IMF and World Bank meeting in Prague September 28, 2000. An international financial meeting overshadowed by sticks, stones and Molotov cocktails, the World Bank and IMF declared repeatedly that business was normal and everything was working well. "These violent forces did not distract us from work, which was to find ways to make globalisation work for the benefit of all," IMF managing director Koehler told the closing news conference. WR/AA