§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the amounts of short-term aid given by national Governments to Southern Sudan following implementation of the Arusha Agreement.
§ Mr. KershawI presume that the Question relates to aid given since the Addis Ababa agreement signed in February this year. I regret that full details of the information required are not available immediately, but those of which we know an., as follows, in approximate sterling equivalents:
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(a) Money[...] received as a result al UNHCR Appeal: Denmark £150,000 Finland £100,000 Netherlands £20,000 Sweden £2[...]5,000 Switzerland £11,000 USA £865,000
(b) Moneys pledged as a result of UNHCR Appeal: Austria £2,100 Botswana £1,000 Federal Republic of Germany £53,000* Pakistan £3,000* Malta £63,000* USA £3,254 000* (c) Bilateral Assistance United Kingdom £200 000† *In kind. † Grant.
§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing the long-term aid commitments made by national Governments to Southern Sudan following the Arusha Agreements.
§ Mr. KershawI presume that the Question relates to commitments made since the Addis Ababa Agreement signed in February this year.
As far as I know, no formal commitments of long-term aid have been made by national Governments. Her Majesty's Government, however, informed the Sudanese Government in May that we would sympathetically consider making a contribution towards long-term reconstruction in the south when plans are ready. This is still our intention; in fact, a team from the Overseas Development Administration's Beirut office will be visiting Southern Sudan next month. It seems likely that the World Bank and other donor Governments will similarly await firmer long-term plans.