Britain allocated some $1.6 million to a fund for needy Holocaust survivors. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said two-thirds of the money would be earmarked to provide medical assistance to survivors in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. The remainder will be used to help survivors in Britain. Fourteen countries, including Britain, pledged about $57 million to the fund, which was announced last December at a conference held in London on Nazi-looted gold.
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