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UNGA 45: SECOND COMMITTEE: POSSIBLE RESOLUTION ON ECONOMIC IMPACT OF
GULF CRISIS
SUMMARY
1.
KUWAITIS APPROACH PRESIDENCY ABOUT POSSIBLE DRAFT RESOLUTION. INSTRUCTIONS REQUESTED.
DETAIL
2. THE KUWAITI DELEGATION HAVE APPROACHED THE ITALIANS AS EC PRESIDENCY TO SOUND THEM OUT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT A ''GROUP OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES' MIGHT TABLE A DRAFT RESOLUTION IN THE SECOND COMMITTEE ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE GULF CRISIS. THE KUWAITIS HAVE APPROACHED OTHER WESTERN DELEGATIONS, INCLUDING THE US. THE SOVIET DELEGATION ARE ALSO PROMOTING THIS IDEA.
3. THE ITALIANS HAVE SO FAR BEEN NON-COMMITTAL, BUT WILL TRY TO PROBE KUWAITI THINKING FURTHER. IT IS ALREADY CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH A DRAFT COULD NOT EMANATE FROM THE G77 AS A WHOLE GIVEN THE DIFFERENCES WITHIN THAT GROUP. THESE HAVE ALREADY PREVENTED ANY REFERENCE TO THE GULF CRISIS IN THEIR ANNUAL MINISTERIAL
DECLARATION.
COMMENT
4.
KUWAITI THINKING APPEARS TO BE AT AN EARLY STAGE. THERE IS A
CLEAR RISK OF DUPLICATION WITH THE IMPENDING CONSIDERATIONS OF
ARTICLE 50 APPLICATIONS BY THE NEW WORKING GROUP OF THE SANCTIONS COMMITTEE. NEVERTHELESS IT IS PROBABLE THAT SOME RESOLUTION WILL BE PUT FORWARD ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE GULF CRISIS, WHATEVER THE VIEW OF THE COMMUNITY AND OTHER WESTERN DELEGATIONS. THERE MAY THEREFORE BE TACTICAL ADVANTAGE IN WORKING WITH THE KUWAITIS, AND TRYING TO GUID THEIR THINKING IN POSITIVE DIRECTIONS. WE SHOULD AIM FOR A RESOLUTION THAT COMPLEMENTS AND ASSISTS THE WORK ALREADY BEING
DONE IN THE IFIS AND THROUGH BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE. WE SHOULD AIM TO AVOID A DRAFT THAT CALLS ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO MAKE EXPENSIVE NEW COMMITMENTS: AND ABOVE ALL, ANY TEXT THAT CUTS ACROSS THE WORK OF THE SANCTIONS COMMITTEE ON ARTICLE 50 OR THAT IMPLIES THAT A WHOLE HOST OF MEMBERS STATES, WHETHER
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