Written question asked by Tom Cox (Labour) on Wednesday, 18 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 24 April 2001. It was answered by Clare Short (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 April 2001 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Dept for International Development

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries have received assistance from the Know How Fund during the last 12 months. - Inc list.

Answer: Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which countries have received assistance from the know how fund during the last 12 months. [158735] Clare Short: The know how fund was the name by which the programme in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union managed jointly by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the former Overseas Development Administration was generally known. Since May 1997 the programme has been managed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in the same way as other DFID programmes. In the last 12 months those countries that have received DFID assistance are Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. We have also assisted Kosovo, which is administered by the United Nations.

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