United Nations expanded technical assistance program-Government pledges and projects authorized 1963-Continued

Chad has pledged a total of $60,000 to the Special Fund and expanded technical assistance program, the

distribution of which will be announced later.

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United Nations Special Fund-Government pledges and projects authorized

for 1959-63

United Nations Special Fund-Government pledges and projects authorized for 1959-63-Continued

Chad has pledged a total of $60,000 to the Special Fund and to the expanded technical assistance program, the distribution of which will be announced later.

Estimated for 1963.

RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes, sir. In these programs, Mr. Chairman, every country can, and a good many do, place some limitation on the use of

the funds.

Mr. PASSMAN. Do we do so?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Do you mean how much of it can be convertible,

and so forth?

Mr. PASSMAN. Do we place a limitation?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Sometimes where it has to do with supplies, as in the Congo import program, yes; but on technical services, no. Mr. PASSMAN. I refer to as it would apply to countries.

Mr. CLEVELAND. I was talking about a different kind of limitation, a limitation on the convertibility of the currency that is put up.

Mr. PASSMÁN. How about Russia? Do they designate the nation and also the technicians in order for you to be able to get the rubles? Mr. CLEVELAND. They do not designate the recipient nations; no. The international organization itself does.

Mr. PASSMAN. In what nations are you spending rubles?

Mr. CLEVELAND. However, they do in fact limit the use of their contribution to the payment of Soviet technicians, the purchase of Soviet supplies, and so forth.

Mr. PASSMAN. Would you know the number of countries in which the rubles are being spent out of this fund?

Mr. CLEVELAND. We will have to supply the list.
Mr. PASSMAN. Please do so.

(The information follows:)

EXPANDED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND SPECIAL FUND USE OF RUBLES During 1962, Byelorussia, the Ukraine, and the U.S.S.R. contributed rubles equivalent to $1,175,000 to the special fund and $2,350,000 to the expanded technical assistance program. Both of these programs use these rubles by employing Soviet experts (see below). In addition, the expanded technical assistance program awarded 73 fellowships for study in the Ukraine and 327 fellowships for study in the U.S.S.R. The special fund procured project equipment in the U.S.S.R. at a value equivalent to $280,900 during 1962.

Experts on the rolls as of June 1, 1963, were assigned to projects in the fol lowing countries or regions:

CUBAN PARTICIPATION IN U.N. TECHNICAL AID AND SPECIAL FUND

Cuba is still eligible to participate in this U.N. Technical Aid fund?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes. They are eligible to participate in theory; As you know, the Communist countries as a group put a good deal more into these programs than the Communist underdeveloped areas take out.

Mr. PASSMAN. That is another argument, and I question whether you could win it if we had time to get into it.

U.S. CONTRIBUTION AND ALLOCATION FROM SPECIAL FUND

We are putting up 40 percent of the total in this special fund. The Cubans can participate in this fund?

Mr. CLEVELAND. They can participate in the fund taken as a whole. Mr. PASSMAN. It goes in this pot, does it not, Mr. Cleveland, when we make our contribution? It is taken over by some arm of the U.N. Then they have charge of the funds and who should get it from that point on, do they not?

Mr. CLEVELAND. The machinery that has charge of the fund includes an intergovernmental committee on which we are represented. Mr. PASSMAN. I know we are represented. After it goes into the U.N. that committee determines what nations are to get the money, does it not?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes.

Mr. PASSMAN. If there is a hundred million dollars in this fund, that means we contribute $40 million, does it not?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes.

Mr. PASSMAN. If you give to Cuba-this is hypothetical-$10 million, it simply means $4 million would be American dollars, or the equivalent?

Mr. CLEVELAND. It would depend

Mr. PASSMAN. It makes no difference where it comes from. If we put up 40 percent of the total whatever goes to any nation, 40 percent of it would be the U.S. contribution.

Mr. CLEVELAND. There are two points, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. PASSMAN. If we put up 40 percent of the total fund, and after it leaves us and gets into the U.N. the committee determines what applications will be approved. Then if you make a contribution, say, of $10 million to Cuba, technically $4 million of that would be the U.S. contribution, would it not?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Technically it would not be unless

Mr. PASSMAN. Straight to the point, it would be, would it not? Mr. CLEVELAND. Not unless a part of the services supplied by the U.N. agency to Cuba were paid for from the U.S. contribution. Mr. PASSMAN. Do we designate the nations to receive our money and for what projects and in what amount?

Mr. CLEVELAND. No, sir.

Mr. PASSMAN. Does the money go into one pot, then you make distributions out of that fund?

Mr. CLEVELAND. It goes into one pot as things now stand but in the case of the Special Fund project that was discussed so much, the planned use of resources there did not in fact include any of the U.S. contribution.

Mr. PASSMAN. We contribute 40 percent of the total of this Special Fund. After it is turned over to the U.N. they receive applications from all over the world and they decide what applications will be approved, do they not? Do they make that determination?

Mr. CLEVELAND. Yes, when you say they

Mr. PASSMAN. Do we have the right to say on this particular project, "No part of any U.S. funds will be available."

Mr. CLEVELAND. No, we have the right to oppose the project as a whole.

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