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MY TELEGRAM NO 369: GULF CRISIS: BURDEN SHARING

MEXICO

1 DURING A DISCUSSION AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY ON 15 OCTOBER, OLIVER MILES, AUSS ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE THE BURDEN SHARING QUESTION. HE SUGGESTED THAT, IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR SUBSTANTIAL OIL WINDFALL RESULTING FROM THE GULF CRISIS, THE MEXICANS MIGHT LIKE TO GIVE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO PROVIDING SSME ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES WHOSE ECONOMIES HAD BEEN MOST ADVERSELY AFFECTED, NOTABLY, EGYPT, TURKEY, AND JORDAN. THIS WOULD BE A VALUABLE DEMONSTRATION TO IRAQ OF WORLD SOLIDARITY.

2. MILES' MEXICAN INTERLOCUTORS WERE TWO ECONOMIC ADVISERS, O'DOGHERTY AND MS ROCK, AND A DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR EUROPE, URRUTIA. MS ROCK SAID THAT NOTE HAD BEEN TAKEN OF THE REQUEST AND GAVE A BEST EFFORTS ASSURANCE. O'DOGHERTY POINTED OUT THAT MEXICO HAD ALREADY PROVIDED A MODEST CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD SOLIDARITY BY BOOSTING OIL EXPORTS 100,000 BPD, THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE.

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MILES ALSO MADE THE SAME POINT TO A SENIOR TREASURY OFFICIAL, VILATELA RIVA DIRECTOR GENERAL OF EXTERNAL CREDIT. PERHAPS NOT SURPRISINGLY, THIS PROVOKED NO COMMENT AT ALL.

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