61.   Congo is able to reconstruct its economy shattered from years of neglect and abuse without foreign assistance, its finance minister said Wednesday.

62.   El-Mahdi already has denied in press interviews that he had received any foreign assistance to help him escape.

63.   Emerging from three decades of civil war, Cambodia relies heavily on foreign assistance.

64.   For that, the country would need foreign assistance, she said.

65.   He added that dollars spent on education abroad go farther both economically and morally than other foreign assistance.

66.   He also expressed disappointment that developed countries have failed to meet their own targets for foreign economic assistance.

67.   He asked people how much they thought the United States was spending on foreign assistance.

68.   He said the government plans to try Khmer Rouge army chief Ta Mok before a Cambodian court under Cambodian law, and would accept foreign assistance for the trial.

69.   He said the World Bank wanted to develop a partnership with the National Development Planning Board and international agencies to coordinate foreign assistance.

70.   He said the reduction was due to a considerable increase in foreign assistance to Pakistan because of its support of the war against terrorism.