VOL. XXXI

NO. 4

2-NOVEMBER-1987

Financial and Banking News

AID FLOWS

Syria Seeks Renewal of $3.5bn Annual Arab Aid

Syria plans to raise the issue of the renewal of the $3.5bn annual aid thatthe Arab oil-producing countries promised to the front-line countriesconfronting Israel during the 1978 Arab Summit Conference at the ExtraordinaryArab Summit Conference in 'Amman on 8 November, MEES understands. The aid,which was pledged for ten years and is due to end next December, was allocatedto Syria...