51.   He said trade protectionism is rising in developed countries while their development assistance to poor countries is declining.

52.   If they do, the U.S. government will be willing to provide more aid for crop substitution, drug eradication and development assistance through United Nations agencies.

53.   In addition, Canada said it would refuse to support Vietnamese candidates for positions in international organizations and suspended the upcoming annual talks on development assistance.

54.   International lenders have threatened to withdraw development assistance to Ivory Coast unless it holds elections.

55.   It says the Congressional language would allow nations to opt out of family planning programs and still receive development assistance.

56.   Japan is the largest single bilateral donor of development assistance to Africa.

57.   Norway froze all government aid not directly alleviating poverty, indefinitely suspended new development assistance and banned new export credits.

58.   Remaining U.S. sanctions involve restrictions on trade development assistance and U.S. export promotion programs.

59.   Reparations would be in the form of debt relief and human development assistance and would not be directly linked to the issue of the slave trade, she said.

60.   Sato said a senior Burmese official recently expressed hope that the ADB would resume development assistance to his country.