In an attempt to attract more aid to counter the rise of Islamists, the Free Syrian Army, the Western-backed rebel group, replaced its leader.
Earlier in the day, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, said that the administration had not increased the aid to counter the criticism that was almost certain to be raised in Monterrey.
Mr. Clinton acknowledged that increased American aid to counter-narcotics operations in Colombia, if successful, was likely to "cause the problem to spill over the borders" into neighboring countries like Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
To do this, Paris is banking on policies "which speak, which personify Europe" – and the setting up of aid funds to counter youth unemployment.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Weeks before it is to begin, an ambitious American aid plan to counter militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas is threatened by important unresolved questions about who will monitor the money and whether it could fall into the wrong hands, according to American and Pakistani officials and analysts familiar with the plan.
Troubled by the prospect of being drawn into a 38-year war that shows no sign of abating, Congress has restricted the use of the American aid to the counter-narcotics fight and a directive signed by President Clinton in 2000 bars the use of American intelligence to combat rebels.
During the civil war years, in the 1980s and the early 1990s, the U.S. government supplied El Salvador with large amounts of military and economic aid in order to counter the leftist parties and guerrilla units that had formed in response to the actions of the governing junta.
It describes possible aids to designers to predict and counter these migrations, which would supplement the reliance on the very static checking of designs against design standards.
UK NGOs, including Christian Aid, are lobbying hard to counter these retrograde arguments, and we're waiting with baited breath for the outcome document to see if our efforts have convinced country delegations.
The main Syrian opposition alliance, the National Coalition, has said it has been warning about the threat posed by Isis for years, and that pro-Western and Islamist rebel groups should have been given the military aid they needed earlier to counter it.
