But despite dismay over this internecine struggle, which to outsiders seemed fueled entirely by personal ambitions, most of the big donors, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have continued to honortheircommitments.
We believe, moreover, that the Bush Administration's stances on such treaties reflect a clear-eyed assessment of the real limits of diplomacy with nations that do not honortheircommitments, that deliberately conceal their activities so as to defeat verification and that seek to use bilateral and multilateral agreements as instruments of asymmetric warfare against nations like the United States that abide by their treaty obligations.
Many partners, including some with lucrative guarantees, had much of their compensation deferred because there wasn't enough money to honorcommitments, according to current and former lawyers.