31.   What Bush will focus on, she said, is his new vision for development assistance.

32.   Without certification, foreign aid to those countries can be cut in half, and the United States would have opposed multilateral development assistance.

33.   Other agenda items for the weekend talks include how to improve development assistance to poor countries, and further steps to inhibit financing for terrorist groups, Martin said.

34.   -- Increase official development assistance and reduce or cancel debts to poorer nations on a case-by-case basis.

35.   A Japanese economic mission is in Manila this week, meeting with finance and central bank officials to discuss projects to be funded by Japanese official development assistance.

36.   African nations are anxious for development assistance better administered and better and more realistically geared to their needs.

37.   And the talks stalled badly on foreign aid, as industrial powers balked at Third World demands that they meet commitments to boost development assistance.

38.   Annan said Friday the United Nations would continue its efforts in Haiti through development assistance and other U.N. projects on the ground.

39.   As a result, international development assistance has been blocked, costing Haiti hundreds of millions of dollars.

40.   At the same time, many of the poorest developing countries continue to suffer from a debt overhang and adverse trends in official development assistance.