51.   Ukraine may default on its foreign debt payments this year unless outside donors resume aid to the former Soviet republic, the Finance Ministry said Friday.

52.   A foreign ministry official said Japan had never resumed economic aid to a country that had sought a debt write-off, and Poland could be the first.

53.   Tokyo resumed aid this year after New Delhi joined the coalition against terrorism.

54.   Tokyo said after the release it would consider resuming official aid, but has made no firm commitment.

55.   Tokyo also announced its willingness to resume economic aid to Burma on a case-by-case basis based on democratisation moves by the Burmese military junta.

56.   Japan reportedly plans to resume grant aid to China -- worth some seven billion yen annually -- by the end of December.

57.   Japan will resume economic aid to Poland if certain conditions such as sound economic performance and steady external debt repayment are met, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Wednesday.

58.   Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto told Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu here Friday Japan planned to resume economic aid to the civil war-torn country, news reports said.

59.   Kyodo said Ikeda did not say when Japan would resume grant aid to China, frozen last year in protest against Chinese nuclear tests.

60.   Moscow has shown sympathy for this position, angering Washington, which wants to retain the option of reimposing sanctions if Serbia resumes aid to the Bosnia Serbs.