11.   The sanctions could prevent international aid agencies from delivering food and medicine.

12.   Unfortunately, governments, aid agencies and the United Nations have an extremely poor record of being able to organise anything.

13.   Aid agencies have been unable to get through to the thousands of refugees stranded on the border.

14.   Money has been flowing into the country from Western aid agencies.

15.   The growing number of people seeking refuge in Thailand is beginning to concern Western aid agencies.

16.   Governments, international organizations and aid agencies referred to civil war as a major contributor to the food crisis and a major hindrance to relief efforts.

17.   The lowland tropical forests of eastern Bolivia are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate, according to international aid agencies.

18.   Aid agencies all over the world have tried to ease their situation, but more immediate help has come from a Hereford farmer.

19.   Aid agencies are warning that relief work in the former Yugoslavia is being jeopardised by volunteers taking emergency supplies into war zones without proper guidance.

20.   Aid agencies say that although well-meaning, the volunteers are threatening official relief work by making aid lorries vulnerable to attack.