President Clinton pledged financial support to President Pastrana Mr Cohen, who is pre-occupied with the apparent bombing attack against a US warship in Yemen and the crisis in the Middle East, will only spend a day at the summit in the north Brazilian city of Manaus, returning to Washington on Tuesday night. Colombia US backing Bogota's Plan Colombia anti-drugs initiative, which has massive US financial backing, is not formally on the agenda but neighbouring countries concerns are likely to be aired. Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Panama have fears that a security clampdown on drugs will mean leftists guerrillas and drug traffickers moving across the border in to their countries. William Cohen is making a brief appearance Brazil has already begun stepping up security along its frontier with Colombia. The United States has already pledged 1.3bn to the fight against drugs in Colombia.
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