Calls for Wolfowitz to resign: timeline
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- September 2006. The UK threatens to withhold contributions to the World Bank in protest against heavy-handed aid conditions imposed by the bank on developing countries, including an aggressive anti-corruption campaign promoted by World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz.
- April 2006. World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz pledges to broaden the bank's strategy to combat corruption in developing countries to include the development of systems in areas such as public procurement.
- January 2006. It is reported that the World Bank's internal investigations unit has received an anonymous complaint, alleging that World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz had breached protocols in his appointment of former colleagues in the US government to senior positions within the Bank.
- June 2005. World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz makes his first tour of Africa, calling for a large increase in US aid to Africa.
- March 2005. The World Bank approves the appointment of US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as its new president, after he is nominated by US President George W. Bush and despite widespread concerns over his suitability for the post.
- February 2005. James Wolfensohn announces that he will step down as president of the World Bank with the expiry of his second five-year term in May.
- December 2003. Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defence Secretary, states that it is necessary to limit competition for reconstruction contracts in Iraq to companies from the USA, Iraq, coalition partners, and troop-contributing countries.
- October 2003. One senior US officer is killed and a dozen other people are injured when the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad is attacked by air-to-ground missiles, but Wolfowitz, who was also staying at the hotel, escapes unharmed.
- July 2003. Following a five-day visit to Iraq, Wolfowitz admits that the USA had underestimated how difficult it would be to create stability in a postwar Iraq.
- June 2003. During talks in South Korea, Wolfowitz says that the USA intends to spend US$11 billion on increasing its military capacity in the country.
- May 2003. Wolfowitz tells Vanity Fair magazine that prior to the war against Iraq, the USA had emphasised the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threat primarily for internal political reasons.
- April 2003. Wolfowitz becomes embroiled in diplomatic tensions between the USA and Germany over the US-led invasion of Iraq.
- March 2003. US-led military forces launch a war against Iraq.
- November 2001. It is reported that Wolfowitz had said that the USA wants to "work with" the Indonesian government to track down local Islamic extremists who had allegedly forged links with the al-Qaida.
- October 2001. Congress (the bicameral US federal legislature) approves anti-terrorism legislation, informally known as the Patriot Act, which, amongst other things, significantly expands the government's authority to conduct wire tapping and Internet surveillance operations and allow the detention of foreign nationals suspected of terrorist activity without charge for seven days.
- October 2001. US-led military forces launch a war against Afghanistan.
- September 2001. Wolfowitz states that one of the goals of US military action is "ending states who sponsor terrorism".
- September 2001. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on Washington DC and New York kill at least 2,749 people.
- May 2001. In Moscow, Russian officials in talks with a US delegation, led by Wolfowitz, express their opposition to t US plans to develop an anti-ballistic missile defence system (MDS).
- February 2001. US President George W. Bush announces that he has nominated Wolfowitz to the post of Deputy Secretary of Defence.
- December 1985. Wolfowitz, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, visits Laos for talks with Deputy Foreign Minister Souban Salitthilat.
- September 1985. Wolfowitz, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, visits Moscow for talks with Mikhail Kapitsa, the Soviet Union’s deputy foreign minister.
- April 1983. Wolfowitz, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, announce in Bangkok that the USA will speed up the delivery of arms to Thailand.
- September 1979. US Senator Henry Jackson, to whom Wolfowitz worked as an aide, accuses the Soviet Union of trying to turn Cuba into a "fortress state capable of threatening the USA". 0
- November 1976. US Senator Henry Jackson is re-elected in legislative elections to the Senate (the upper chamber of the US bicameral federal legislature).
- July 1976. US Senator Henry Jackson fails to win the nomination for the Democratic presidential candidacy.
- July 1972. US Senator Henry Jackson fails to win the nomination for the Democratic presidential candidacy.
