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Yunus meets Pranab, Rahul Gandhi

January 31, 2007 18:36 IST

Nobel Laureate and chief architect of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh had 45-minute meeting with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday during which the two discussed micro-financing activity in Bangladesh and India.

Gandhi evinced keen interest in the activities of Grameen

Bank and Grameen Trust.

After outlining various facets of the Bank's activites, Yunus invited Gandhi to visit Bangladesh to have a first hand experience.

Gandhi is understood to have responded positively to the invitation. Meanwhile, Yunus had 20-minute meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

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