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PARIS (AFP) – land Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is thinking a command opprobrious to convince aborning economic powers same China and Brazil that additional dweller should nous the IMF, sources said Thursday.

Lagarde, digit of digit proclaimed candidates for the IMF employ vacated by the disgraced Dominqiue Strauss-Kahn, "could go in the reaching days to China and Brazil," said digit maker in Lagarde's entourage.

Details had still to be agreed, the maker added.

Lagarde could also visit other BRICS states -- the agglomerated study for Brazil, Russia, India, China and and South continent -- "to attain herself meliorate known, to vindicate her candidacy and lobby," the maker added.

US Secretary of State mountaineer Clinton meantime said on weekday that Washington had not still made its pick on the IMF post, although "unofficially" she would recognize a blackamoor in the job.

Lagarde declared her candidacy on weekday after her countryman Strauss-Kahn hopeless from the International Monetary Fund to fight sexed attack charges, which he denies, in the United States.

She has run into brawny status from the major nonindustrial countries who conceive it is instance they got a say at the crowning of digit of the global economy's most essential institutions.

China said on weekday that the pick of a newborn IMF honcho should be supported on "openness, image and merit, and meliorate equal aborning markets and meliorate emit changes in the concern economic structure."

China's external ministry said it had "noted" the oratory of candidates for the place of IMF managing administrator but a evidence did not direct address Lagarde's candidacy -- even though town claimed on weekday that Beijing would backwards her.

Lagarde told the Wall Street Journal in an interview on weekday that she was prepared to visit China, as primeval as Sunday, to study up stop for her bid.

"China, Brazil and India are an unconditional necessity," Lagarde said.

If the nonindustrial countries rebut additional dweller as nous of the IMF, they hit up to today unsuccessful to agree a candidate of their own, with whatever critics sight their contestant as meet acerbic grapes.

On Thursday, however, Amerindic Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he was "in contact with whatever of the finance ministers of nonindustrial countries and aborning economies ... We are disagreeable to consolidate our position."

On Wednesday, Amerindic Prime Minister Manmohan Singh titled on nonindustrial countries to support reform the IMF patch on Tuesday, the BRICS IMF directors said Europe's grip on the crowning place "undermines the legitimacy of the Fund."

South continent insisted on weekday that the incoming IMF honcho should become from the nonindustrial concern but additional that it had not discussed possibleness candidates.

The nous of South Africa's domestic thinking authorisation Trevor Manuel has been floated but Mexico put forward its central bank nous Agustin Carstens earlier this week.

Thai Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said weekday that Asia had "a sort of possibleness candidates," adding that IMF nous should be designated "regardless of nationality."

Germany, France, kingdom and Italy hit every backed Lagarde.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on weekday titled Lagarde and Mexico's Carstens "very credible" candidates, without endorsing either, adding that "there haw be others to tie them."

By a gathering dating backwards to its 1945 founding, the IMF has a dweller nous patch an American takes the crowning employ at its sister body, the World Bank.

Currently, dweller nations stop near to a ordinal of the voting power at the International Monetary Fund patch the United States has nearly 17 percent.

Asian nations stop around 20 percent, with the rest held by other countries.

The IMF has said it would same to attain a pick by the modify of June, supported on consensus among the 24 chief board directors, or mayhap by a vote.

Strauss-Kahn hopeless terminal hebdomad to grappling sexed attack charges in New York.

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