US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Washington must break with dictatorial policies of the past

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3830770,00.html

Clinton ties U.S. security to better aid delivery (Reuters)

7 January 2010, WASHINGTON - U.S. security depends on a new approach to international aid and Washington must break with dictatorial policies of the past as it dispenses billions of dollars in assistance, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

“In the past we have sometimes dictated solutions from afar, often missing our mark on the ground,” Clinton said in a speech. “Our new approach is to work in partnership with people in developing countries.”

Clinton’s speech at a Washington think-tank marked the Obama administration’s latest effort to make development aid a key foreign policy tool on a par with defense and diplomacy.

But while the U.S. remains the world’s largest individual aid donor — with almost $27 billion disbursed in 2008 — critics say the administration is slow to follow through on promises to boost funding and improve work at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the main U.S. government aid organization.

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1. ...and into the dictatorial policies of the future.

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2. exactly

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