1.   Earlier in the day, Bush reiterated his message of conditional aid to poor countries and of trade as the key to fighting poverty.

2.   Foreign donors have made most of their aid conditional upon a reconciliation among feuding political parties in Albania, where tensions remain high.

3.   Thailand was forced into accepting a conditional aid package from the International Monetary Fund after the national currency, the baht, sharply depreciated.

4.   It also marks a significant break with the era of Francois Mitterrand, whose wish was to make French aid conditional on the introduction of multi-party democracy.

5.   The Commission recently approved conditional state aid for the Spanish airline Iberia.