Britain is providing the £75 million already announced, and implementation of programmes within this is under way. In addition, we are spending £6 million this year in training Zimbabweans already on courses before independence, and we have forgone payment of £22 million of official debt.

Initial pledges by other donors and pledges by the international community amount to about US $400 million. Longer-term assistance, and membership of the European Community and the World Bank, should increase this sum substantially. We are continuing to encourage generous aid from the international community.