Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which countries have received assistance from the know how fundduring the last 12 months. [158735]Clare Short: The know how fund was the name by which the programme in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union managedjointly by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the former Overseas Development Administration was generally known. Since May1997 the programme has been managed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the same way as other DFID programmes.In the last 12 months those countries that have received DFID assistance are Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, the CzechRepublic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania,Serbia and Montenegro, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan,Uzbekistan and Belarus. We have also assisted Kosovo, which is administered by the United Nations.