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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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