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8. Many speakers, including me, advocated resumption of Bank lending to Vietnam and Cambodia. But the US opposition is holding as firmly in AsDB as in the IMF and World Bank, and neither Japan nor France seems inclined to force the issue.
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The 1993 Annual Meeting will be held in Manila, if security permits, from 4-6 May unless the African Development Bank, which has picked the same week, successfully persuades the Asian Development Bank to move.
Peter Freeman
International Division
Distribution
PS/Baroness Chalker
PS/Mr Lankester
Mr Ainscow
Mr Manning
Mr Burns
Mr Faint
Mr Power
Mr Stanton
Mr Tebbit
Mr Thomson
Mr Pickering, HMT
Mr Elston, BOE
Miss Bulloch, BOE
Mr Ricketts, Hong Kong Dept.
Mr Davis, AsDB Manila
Mr Dinham, SEADD Bangkok
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