Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much of the financial assistance committed by donorcountries for the first year of the reconstruction of Afghanistan has been disbursed since January 2002, broken down by donorcountry. [74885]Clare Short: I attach a table of estimated disbursals produced by the Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority (AACA). This wasproduced for the recent Implementation Group meeting in Afghanistan and outlines donor's pledges, commitments and disbursals for2002, as known to the AACA. It is currently estimated that overall 67 per cent. of 2002's pledge has been disbursed.Table 1: Transitional Government Data on Donor Pledges, and 2002 Commitments and Disbursements V=11 October 2002_________________________________________________________________________________________________.Donor Amount Amount Amount Over how Amount Over how Total Rough Commitme Disburse Disburse Commentpledged pledged pledged many of any many Overall annual nt ment ments asat Tokyo at Tokyo at Tokyo years? Addition years? Pledge Pledge against against % of(Grant + (Grant + as al (Tokyo + for 2002 Tokyo + Tokyo/ 2002Loan) Loan) Grants Pledge Addition Addition Additio Pledge(donor (US$m) (US$m) (US$m) al) al nalcurrency Pledges Pledges)ADB -- 500 85 2.5 ... ... 500 50 50.0 0.7 1.4Aga Khan -- 75 75 ... ... ... 75 ... 16.2 8.2 ... Pledge2002 notavailAustria -- 10 10 2.5 ... ... 10 4 ... ... ... UnknownAustralia A$17m. 9 9 1 2 1 11 11 7.7 7.7 72.2 EstimateBelgium Euro 33 28 28 5 ... ... 28 9 8.1 7.2 80.0 Estimatem.Canada CDN$100m 63 63 1.25 ... ... 63 63 31.3 31.3 49.9.China -- 1 1 1 150 5 151 31 31.0 30.0 96.8Denmark DKK500m. 60 60 5 46 2 106 28 28.0 16.5 58.9EC (Recon Euro 864 864 5 ... ... 864 173 182.5 78.4 45.4supp) 1000 m.EC -- -- -- -- 65 1 65 65 58.0 45.0 69.5(Hum.--ECHO)Finland Euro 30 26 26 3 ... ... 26 10 10.0 7.9 79.0 Estimatem.France Euro 26 22 22 1 10 1 32 32 34.2 27.8 86.9 Estimatem.Germany Euro 276 276 4 43 1 320 113 112.6 120.6 107.1320m.India -- 100 100 1 ... ... 100 100 31.7 31.7 31.7Iran -- 560 560 6 ... ... 560 50 40.0 32.7 65.4(IslamicRep)Ireland Euro 10 10 3 2 1 12 5 6.8 6.8 123.612m.Islamic Dev -- ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... UnknownBankItaly -- 43 43 1 10 1 53 53 39.7 24.1 45.5Japan -- 500 500 2.5 92 2 592 250 259.0 209.0 83.6Korea (Rep. -- 45 45 2.5 ... ... 45 10 10.0 2.2 22.0of)Kuwait -- 30 30 n.a. ... ... 30 30 1.6 2.1 7.0 PledgedurationunconfirmLuxembourg Euro 5 4 4 1 ... ... 4 4 4.9 0.1 2.3 Estimatem.Netherlands Euro 70 60 60 1 5 1 65 65 68.7 68.7 105.0m.Norway NOK 350 40 40 1 .. ... 40 40 40.0 32.0 80.0m.Pakistan -- 100 50 5 ... ... 100 50 50.0 17.7 35.4 See Note6Russian Fed. -- ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... UnknownSaudi Arabia -- 220 220 4 ... ... 220 55 27.1 27.1 49.3Spain Euro 120 104 104 5 ... ... 104 21 6.4 6.4 30.7 Estimatem.Sweden SEK 90 90 3 ... ... 90 30 18.5 18.5 61.7750--1000 m.Switzerland -- 20 20 2 ... ... 20 12 11.0 9.0 75.0Taiwan -- 29 29 3 ... ... 29 10 ... ... ... UnknownTurkey -- 5 5 5 ... ... 5 2 2.2 2.2 100.0UAE -- 36 36 n.a. ... ... 36 ... ... ... ... UnknownUnited £200 m. 288 288 5 55 1 343 130 91.6 77.5 59.6KingdomUSA -- 297 297 1 143 2 440 297 360.0 360.0 121.2World Bank -- 570 100 3 ... ... 570 150 100.0 9.6 6.4 See Note7Total: -- 5,087 4,151 -- 623 -- 5,710 1,952 1,738.7 1,318.5 67.5_________________________________________________________________________________________________.Notes: 1 These are indicative estimates based on information provided to the Transitional Government to date; AACA is moving toproject based aggregations based on entries in AACA's Donor Assistance Database (http://aacadad.undp.org) 2 The figures in Table 1represent the commitments and disbursements made since the Tokyo Pledging on 22 January 2002; 3 Table 2 reflects the substantialsupport also provided to Afghanistan in 2001 by many donors. 4 Exchange rates: Pledges made in currencies other than the US Dollarhave been converted at the exchange rate prevailing in January. 5 Exchange rates: Commitments and Disbursements have been convertedat the averate rate effective January and 4 October 2002. 6 Grant over one year; 7 US$470m incl some grants (up to approx $110m)Source: Transitional Government of Afghanistan, AACA Aid Coordination Unit Please email any comments or corrections toaidan.cox@undp.org and najeeb.azizi@afganistangov.org