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MR RALEIGH APD
cc Mr Millington EED
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UNALLOCATED RESERVE 1990/91: EAD RETURN
Reference
FROM:
EXTN:
JAL FAINT
0343
DATE: 2 NOVEMBER 1989
cc Mr Manning o/r
Mr Colvin SEAD FCO Mr Richard SAD FCO Mr Paul FED FCO SEADD Bangkok
I attach completed forms for EAD in response to your circular minute of 20 October.
2. In summary, we offer surrenders of £lm for Sri Lanka and £20,000 for Burma, and make bids which are set out below, together with their implications in future framework years:
Country
1990/91 (Bid)
Indonesia
1400
EAD Regional
Vietnam
250 100
1991/92
1992/93
2550 350 300
2550
500
500
3.
The bids for Indonesia and Eastern Asia regional are part of the UK forestry initiative, and claims are registered against the £5m referred to in para 8 of your circular minute. Background information on each, attached to this return, consists of an extract from our PES bid for Indonesia, and the recent Ministerial submission for Eastern Asia regional (the Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia).
4. We also wish to register a modest bid for Vietnam. Both because of the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia and the rapidly evolving situation in Indo-China, and because of moves underway on the problem of the Vietnamese boat people, the time may soon come when we will wish to initiate a technical cooperation programme in Vietnam. If this happens, we expect the programme to be modest in size and slow to build up. It would consist of traditional activities for small country programmes, such as ELT and HOMGS. This proposal is independent of assistance directly related to the repatriation of VBP. As APD is aware, such expenses falling on the aid programme would be met from new resources provided centrally and not requiring a claim on the UR.
5.
The Bangladesh framework represents a pressure point within EAD. Forecast expenditure from binding commitments exceeds our aid framework figure of £50m, and there is additional potential expenditure of a substantial magnitude. However two major approved capital aid projects are facing start up problems, in view of the slippage which has affected the Bangladesh programme in the past we do not believe there is a case for a UR
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