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(GSM) programs should offer longer-term repayment, either under 

 GSM-103 or a new program, subject to Congressional approval. Food 

 aid resources should be targeted on areas of greatest humanitarian 

 need. Technical assistance should emphasize improvement in the 

 Russian food production and marketing system. All such programs 

 should be better integrated than in the past to avoid overlap and 

 ensure greater complementarity. 



We need to avoid becoming prisoners of our own programs and 

 maintain focus on our central objective in providing assistance to 

 Russia. I have made my recommendations for action clear and in 

 more detailed form to this Committee in the last few weeks. I will 

 not repeat them here. Z close simply by urging your abiding 

 attention to this issue; and your attention, in addition, to the 

 need to maintain a flexible and reflexive U.S. policy approach, as 

 political and economic conditions in Russia continue to change. 



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