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AID FLOWS

Jordan Still Receiving Saudi Aid

According to a statement on 17 August by the Jordanian Prime Minister, Mr. Zaid al-Rifa'i, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab aid donor still honoring the aid pledges made at the Baghdad Summit in November 1978. He said that Jordan had received $119.3mn in August and a similar amount in March as part of Saudi Arabia's annual $358mn pledge.