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OUR TELN 565: IRAQ/KUWAIT: BURDEN SHARING: INDONESIA

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INDONESIANS REQUEST INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OTHES APPROACHED. THEY HAVE BEEN APPROACHED SEPARATELY BY JORDAN.

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WE FOLLOWED UP WITH RIANOM, DIRECTOR MIDDLE EAST, DFA ON 3 OCTOBER. OUR REQUEST FOR A TOKEN CONTRIBUTION HAD BEEN FORWARDED FOR INFORMATION TO ALATAS IN NEW YORK. RIANOM WAS NOW PUTTING UP RECOMMENDATIONS, AND GAVE THE IMPRESSION A TOKEN GESTURE MIGHT BE POSSIBLE IF INDONESIA WAS IN GOOD ENOUGH COMPANY. HE WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR INFORMATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS PLEDGED BY OTHER APPROACHED CAPART FROM JAPAN, FRG, SAUDI ARABIA AND KUWAIT). PARTICULAR ATTENTION WOULD BE PAID TO REACTIONS OF THE NIES, ASEANS AND OTHER OPEC LDCS. RIANOM ASKED IN PARTICULAR WHAT BRUNEI WAS GIVING. GRATEFUL FOR ANY STANDARD ROUND UP YOU COULD PROVIDE. WE NOTED THAT SINGAPORE'S REACTION HAD ALSO BEEN TO LOOK SIDEWAYS TO MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA, AND SUGGESTED SOME BILATERAL OR ASEAN CONSULTATIONS.

3. RIANOM MENTIONED THAT INDONESIA HAD ALSO RECEIVED A DIRECT APPROACH FROM JORDAN FOR ASSISTANCE. (HE IMPLIED THIS HAD BEEN SOMEWHAT UNDERMINED BY THE JORDANIAN AMBASSADOR'S COMMENT, PERHAPS IN JEST, THAT IN SOME WAYS THE CRISIS WAS TO THEIR ADVANTAGE: INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR THEIR OIL, THEY NOW GOT IT FREE FROM IRAQ.)

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