31.   An Indian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said the Pakistani move likely would not impede the aid shipment.

32.   And in western Afghanistan, aid shipments are being held up because of a shortage of drivers and the fact there are no customs officers at the Iranian border.

33.   Asur grabbed his wool blanket, part of one of the few aid shipments to reach the camp.

34.   Athens has also accused Belgrade of conducting ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and has launched daily aid shipments to ethnic Albanian refugees pouring into neighboring Albania and Macedonia.

35.   Berisha and some government officials have admitted that protecting aid shipments would be difficult, especially because of rebels in areas such as Tepelena.

36.   Berisha asked the delegation for help with police work as well, both to protect aid shipments and to reform the inexperienced security forces.

37.   Bosnian Serbs crack down on one aid program and are planning to keep overland aid shipments from reaching Sarajevo for a week.

38.   Both were intended to help Russia through the long winter, but no aid shipments are expected until next month at the earliest.

39.   But critics have been frustrated by the lack of conciliatory gestures from the North and believe the president should scale back aid shipments and other concessions.

40.   But even before snow chokes mountain passes, security concerns and problems with bureaucracy have been holding up aid shipments and costing precious time.