Nevertheless, in his budget released this week, George Bush proposes to keep aid to Colombia largely unchanged in 2005-06, at some $742m.
Then, we thought it would be better to open an office near the Turkish Syria border to keep aid flowing.
And though domestic lobbies (companies eager to win aid contracts) may help bolster aid budgets, that is no reason to keep aid tied.
The Sudanese armed forces try to keep aid workers and journalists out, so the story of suffering has not received much international attention.
But Mr. Ban also wants to highlight the need to keep aid flowing in the middle of still-turbulent economic times.
And on Friday, Mr. Schäuble himself warned that a failure to keep aid flowing raised "an acute danger of Greece being unable to pay its debts, with grave consequences for the euro area".
It would be a dramatic shift for the Obama administration, which has declined to label President Mohamed Morsi's ousting a coup and has argued it is in US national security interests to keep aid flowing.
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (Reuters) — The top United Nations envoy in Haiti urged international donors on Friday to keep aid flowing during President René Préval's first six months in office, or risk renewed instability.
A dismayed Congress has attached conditions to future military assistance to Egypt (now $1.3 billion a year), requiring the Obama administration to certify that the military government is maintaining peace with Israel, allowing a transition to civilian rule and protecting basic freedoms — or to waive the conditions on national security grounds — if it wants to keep aid flowing.
Despite the anger on both sides, the Americans would like to maintain Pakistani cooperation as they try to wind down the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan would like to keep aid flowing from the United States, which has amounted to more than $20 billion in the past decade.
