Each week seems to bring a new announcement of food aid or "reconstruction assistance" for the North.

The country receives substantial amounts of reconstruction assistance and humanitarian aid from the international community.

Thus, as compliance with Dayton slows, so does reconstruction assistance.

Behind the News - About 600 soldiers have been in southern Iraq since 2004, providing reconstruction assistance.

The United Nations is also actively involved in humanitarian and reconstruction assistance.

"If Serb houses are damaged, it's hard to get reconstruction assistance, which is supposed to be available to everyone."

Millions of dollars in new American reconstruction assistance would be provided.

Certainly, as I made clear in my own speech, a great deal of reconstruction assistance has already been provided by the European Commission and others.

Now the issue is one of reconstruction assistance.

Under these conditions the continuation of reconstruction assistance cannot be justified.