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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/aid-cash-will-be-better-targeted.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Overseas aid will be better targeted after British funds are cut off from 16 countries currently receiving UK cash, Andrew Mitchell has said" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-aid-cash-will-be-better-targeted.jpg" alt="Overseas aid will be better targeted after British funds are cut off from 16 countries currently receiving UK cash, Andrew Mitchell has said"/></a></p>
<p>Overseas aid will be better targeted after British funds are cut off from 16 countries currently receiving UK cash, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said.</p>
<p>Russia, China, Angola and Vietnam are among those that will see their aid budgets phased out between now and 2016.</p>
<p>The Government will also save more than £50 million by cutting aid to four United Nations aid organisations which fail to spend taxpayers&#8217; money wisely, Mr Mitchell announced.</p>
<p>Britain would instead spend more on aid in war-torn countries like Afghanistan and Somalia to provide greater security for UK interests.</p>
<p>&#8220;Aid can perform miracles but it must be well spent and properly targeted,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>It was &#8220;no longer acceptable&#8221; for British taxpayers to fund the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, UN-Habitat, the UN agency the International Labour Organisation, and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.</p>
<p>All four organisations &#8220;performed poorly or failed to demonstrate relevance&#8221;, Mr Mitchell told MPs in a statement to the Commons.</p>
<p>Save the Children welcomed the aid review, with charity chief executive, Justin Forsyth, saying: &#8220;In these times of austerity, the British Government is right to put a greater emphasis on results and accountability.</p>
<p>&#8220;With more funds also being directed at fragile states &#8211; some of the most difficult places on earth for a child to grow up in &#8211; the British public can be confident that UK aid is being directed towards those who need it most.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Oxfam chief executive Barbara Stocking said: &#8220;We are very pleased that the Government has kept its promises to the world&#8217;s poorest people at a time when they need help the most. Offering a helping hand in the bad times as well as the good represents the best of British values.&#8221;</p>
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