VOL. XXXI

NO. 18

8-FEBRUARY-1988

Financial and Banking News

AID FLOWS

France Promises to Increase Aid to Palestinians in Occupied Territories

France has increased its humanitarian aid to Palestinians in theIsraeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to FFlOmn ($1.8mn) in 1987 from FF4mn($708,000) in 1986, according to Finance Minister Edouard Balladur. The Frenchofficial told a news conference in Amman on 28 January that "our decisionto more than double the volume of financial assistance shows our...