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CO-FINANCING OPERATION WITH JAPAN IN JORDAN.
SWITZERLAND: 9 MILLION ALREADY DISBURSED IN HUMANITARIAN
A FURTHER 100 MILLION FOR 1991, SUBJECT MM PARLIAQ, ALPIN GRANT FORM.
AID.
SAUDI ARABIA: AL-TOSKI CONFIRMED A COMMITMENT OF 4 BILLION DOLLARS. THIS INCLUDED 7.8 MILLION DOLLARS
ΤΟ HELP WITH TRANSPORTATION COSTS FOR WORKERS RETURNING TO EGYPT. SYRIA SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS A FRONT-LINE STATE.
BELGIUM: SUBJECT TO PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL, 35 MILLION IN CONCESSIONAL LOANS WOULD BE AVAILABLE IN 1991.
KOREA: THE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER WAS CURRENTLY VISITING THE MOST AFFECTED COUNTRIES, TO SEE HOW KOREA'S 75 MILLION DOLLAR PLEDGE COULD BE DISBURSED QUICKLY AND USEFULLY. 23 OF THIS WOULD GO TO EGYPT, 22 TO TURKEY AND 15 TO JORDAN.
UAE: CONFIRMED DISBURSEMENTS OF 1,250 MILLION, OF WHICH 650 MILLION WAS IN GRANTS.
12. MULFORD THEN ATTEMPTED TO SUM UP BY SUGGESTING THAT IN BRIEFING THE PRESS, HE DRAW FROM SOME TABLES THE US DELEGATION HAD PREPARED (COPIES WITH WICKS). THE FIRST SHOWED TOTAL COMMITMENTS, IN FOUR GROUPS: GULF STATES (8.4 BILLION), EC (2.2 BILLION), JAPAN (2.0 BILLION) AND OTHERS (0.2 BILLION). ANNOUNCEMENTS AT THE MEETING MEANT THAT THE GLOBAL TOTAL COULD BE REVISED UPWARDS TO 13 BILLION. A SECOND TABLE SHOWED THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED TO THE THREE FRONT LINE STATES (5.2 BILLION), TO OTHER STATES (2.4 BILLION) AND UNALLOCATED. A THIRD TABLE SHOWING AMOUNTS DISBURSED SHOULD PERHAPS BE WITHHELD UNTIL DISBURSEMENTS APPEARED
MORE IMPRESSIVE.
13. SARCINELLI AGREED, BUT ADDED THAT HE WOULD WISH ΤΟ CO-HOST THE PRESS CONFERENCE. OTHERS ALSO CONCURRED, WITH MULFORD OVERRIDING SOME SPANISH AND SAUDI OBJECTIONS TO ANY FIGURES BEING RELEASED TO THE PRESS.
DEBT FORGIVENESS
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MULFORD NOTED THAT SOME STATES HAD ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WERE FORGIVING DEBTS OF STATES AFFECTED BY THE CRISIS.
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