When Corker visited in August, he praised the Egyptian government and spoke in favor of extending aid.
However, the company's media office did not exclude the possibility that its banking subsidiary, Gazprombank, was in talks with the Cypriot government about extending aid.
The administration is extending aid to the industry in a bid to prevent further collapse of the supply chain, which could hurt the North American operations of foreign automakers like Honda and Toyota as well.
About $10 billion of the $60 billion would go to eliminating income taxes on unemployment benefits and extending aid to the long-term unemployed by 13 weeks, on top of the existing 26 weeks.
Tauli-Corpuz, who as a member of the Kankana-ey Igorot people from the northern Philippines is the first indigenous woman to hold the rapporteur post, said the Australian government had "regressed" in extending aid to Indigenous communities.
The EU's "neighbourhood policy", launched in 2003, aimed to create a "ring of friends" by extending aid and benefits, such as access to the single market, in return for economic and political reforms.
The pacts were negotiated under George Bush's presidency, but had been held up amid a row about extending aid to American workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.
Last week conservative members of the House, invoking the new deficit fears, scaled back a bill extending aid to the long-term unemployed — and the Senate left town without acting on even the inadequate measures that remained.
As panic spread a year ago, Mr Almunia was calm, serious and tough, extending aid to struggling EU countries but also warning big ones of the consequences of rash actions.In this section Victim or villain?
Condemning deficits and refusing to help a still-struggling economy has become the new fashion everywhere, including the United States, where 52 senators voted against extending aid to the unemployed despite the highest rate of long-term joblessness since the 1930s.
