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SCHEDULE OF UK CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNHCR/UNRWA

AND FOR PROGRAMMES WITH SIMILAR PURPOSES

a) UNHCR

General Programme

严肃

1978 £ million

1979 £ million

1.000

3.500

(pledge)

Special Appeals

Lebanon

Southern Africa'

Bangladesh

.250

1.528

.750

0.650

(pledge)

China

1.000

1.000

(pledge)

Horn of Africa

.750

Cyprus Zaire

*k i.

..500

.250

b) UNRWA

4.062

4.400

(Midge)

c) ICRC

t

for relief work including refugee support in Horn of Africa, Rhodesia, Western Sahara, Nicaragua, Argentina

་་

Voluntary Organisations - Christian Aid, British Red Cross, YMCA, YWCA, Project Vietnam for projects in support of Indo- Chinese refugees in Thailand; and projects by other agencies in Jordan, Argentina and Honduras

4

1.238

.150

e) Scholarships for Zimbabweans and refugee students from Chile and elsewhere

No. of students

Current annual

M

Rhodesia (1978/9

1979/80

Chile

1978/9

Other

1978/9

1. (1979/80

Countries (1979/80

1

expenditure

£million

1440

1380(estimate) 3.900 *

400(estimate)

2.300

175

145(estimate)

0.650

*Proposals for a major expansion of this programme are now at an advanced

stage of consideration.