WASHINGTON, July 22 Kyodo The U c...

WASHINGTON, July 22 Kyodo

The U control announced Monday it will withhold $34 million previously appropriated by way of the Congress to the UN Population supply (UNFAP), claiming the fund indirectly support coercive abortion in China.

''United States stores for family planning and reproductive health will be wearied through U.S. Agency for International progression in a continuously ascending gradation programs and not through the UNFAP,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in a pres briefing.

The decision is suppos to be based forward U.S. law and information bring togethered including a report from an independent assessment team sent by dint of Secretary of State Colin Powell to China this May.

The report of the Powell team, made available Monday, deduces however, there is ''no evidence that UNFAP has knowingly supported or participated in the management of programs of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization'' in China and commits releasing the allocated standard of value to the fund.

Boucher said that below Chinese population control regulations, a family which violates management family planning policy is make liable to a large fine, which forces them to pursue an abortion.

Also, equipment as it is as computers and vehicles stocked by UNFAP are ''used to project notices to people about not having further children,'' he said. Therefore, the store is involved, as ''they are supplying equipment to the self-same agencies that employ coercive practices,'' Boucher said.

Critics of the administration's act upon said it is aimed at placating conservatives and antiabortionists in preparation for September congressional elections.

''It's politically motivated because the evidence is highly clear that the UNFAP does not condone in any way any coercive aspect of China's program,'' said Sara Seims, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a recently made known York-based research institute focusing upon reproductive health research and policy analysis.

''This is remarkably distressing and it will not be proper for the health of women overseas nor be profitable for standing of the U overseas,'' Seims said.

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