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NOTES TO THE TABLES
The £/$ exchange rate used is 1.90.
The figures for military contributions are drawn from MOD information. Where figures are available only for costs to the end of 1990, they have been doubled to give an estimate of annualised costs. (This is in line with the procedure we have used for UK).
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The EC budget contributions for refugees (58 MECU, $77 million) and economic assistance (500 MECU, $665 million) have been broken down on a separate page to show the additional contributions by member states resulting from additions to the EC budget. These additional contributions are included in the members' figures in the main table.
- The EC member states have also agreed in principle to provide 1 BECU ($1.3 billion) in national contributions. The bilateral contributions already announced by Germany, France and Italy already amount to over $1 billion.
- 1989 GDP figures for OECD countries are drawn from OECD's "Main Economic Indicators (March 1990 edition)". For the Gulf countries GNP figures for 1988 are drawn from the World Bank Atlas.
- The US has offered to write off $7 billion of Egypt's military debt. This will have little immediate cash flow benefit. Qatar has offered to write off $200m of debt owed by a range of countries.
- In addition to the 16 countries listed in the table, the following 13 countries are also participating in the military effort: Afghanistan; Argentina; Bangladesh; Bahrain; Czechoslovakia; Egypt; Morocco; Oman; Pakistan; Poland; Qatar; Senegal; Syria.
- The following countries also have offered or are considering offering military assistance: Hungary; Lesotho; Niger; Nigeria.
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