Earl Alexander of Tunisasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will provide a list of the aid pledged to Zimbabwe since independence, indicating for each donor country new pledges made at the recent donors' conference.
§ Lord TrefgarneAt the end of the Donors' Conference the Zimbabwe Government announced that the gross total of aid pledged since independence stood at 1,282 million Zimbabwe dollars (just over 2 billion United States dollars). This includes commitments made before or reconfirmed at the conference totalling 365 million Zimbabwe dollars. New pledges made at the conference totalled nearly 917 million Zimbabwe dollars. Of the total of 1,282 million Zimbabwe dollars, almost 900 million was for items on the conference 825WA agenda. The detailed breakdown of donor pledges is as follows:
Donor Gross Total Zimbabwe dollars Confirmations Zimbabwe dollars New Pledges Zimbabwe dollars African Dev. Bank 39,763 — 39,763 Australia 14,604 7,650 6,955 BADEA 31,250 — 31,250 Belgium 8,000 — 8,000 Canada 33,334 5,556 27,778 China 17,500 17,500 — Denmark 12,452 9,622 2,830 Egypt 1,250 — 1,250 EEC 120,000 12,139 107,862 Finland 5,167 2,667 2,500 France 71,430 35,715 35,715 Germany 62,321 30,714 31,607 Ghana 63 — 63 Holy See 12,500 8,125 4,375 Italy 23,125 11,250 11,875 Japan 3,080 1,960 1,120 Jersey 75 — 75 Kuwait 32,500 — 32,500 Iraq 1,875 1,875 — Ireland 45 45 — Luxembourg 1,969 94 1,875 Netherlands 16,233 6,126 10,107 New Zealand 174 — 174 Nigeria 12,440 12,440 — Norway 11,250 1,250 10,000 OPEC 6,250 — 6,250 Saudi Arabia 3,125 3,125 — Sierra Leone 56 — 56 Sweden 54,411 9,933 44,478 Switzerland 16,270 903 15,357 United Kingdom 177,031 140,454 36,577 United Nations 26,406 11,250 15,156 United States 172,633 32,008 140,625 World Bank 287,500 — 287,500 Yugoslavia 2,813 938 1,875 Commonwealth 2,926 1,565 1,361 TOTAL 1,281,821 364,904 916,919