§ Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty's Government:
§ Whether a conference of donor states, including the United Kingdom, has agreed to an aid package worth £1 billion over five years to the Republika Srpska, without securing the co-operation of the Bosnian Serb authorities in the arrest of alleged war criminals for whom arrest warrants have been issued by the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and how they reconcile this treatment with the decision of the London peace implementation conference "to increase the pressure on those not complying with arrest warrants".
§ Baroness Chalker of WallaseyDonor states met in Brussels on 9th-1Oth January to exchange information on reconstruction needs for 1997. No decisions were taken on aid packages. The World Bank and the European Union plan to convene the next pledging conference on 4th March. This will take into account the conclusions of the London conference on conditionality.