RESTRICTED FROM ROME
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MDHIAN 927
(UNLIKE EGYPT AND TURKEY). MAAS (HOLLAND) MADE AN APPEAL FOR FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAKE UP THE DOLLARS 74 MILLION SHORTFALL BETWEEN BILATERAL PLEDGES AND EC COMMITMENTS, APPEALING PARTICULARLY TO THE UK. THE ONLY NEW COMMITMENT WAS ANNOUNCED BY SPAIN, WHICH WILL CONTRIBUTE 20 MILLION ECUS TO THE THREE FRONT-LINE STATES. ITALY ANNOUNCED THAT A SMALL PORTION OF ITS DLR150 MILLION WOULD GO TO SOMALIA.
PLENARY MEETING
3.
AFTER OPENING REMARKS BY SARCINELLI (ITALY), MULFORD (US TREASURY) OPENED BY WELCOMING THE ARRIVAL IN THE GROUP OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, FINLAND, GREECE, ICELAND AND NEW ZEALAND.
HE SAID THAT THE MEETING'S PURPOSE WAS TO GIVE TANGIBLE EXPRESSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT AGAINST IRAQ. HE WANTED THE MEETING TO CONCLUDE IN A WAY THAT SENT A PUBLIC STATEMENT TO SADDAM HUSSEIN THAT THE UNITY AND
FIRMNESS OF
THOSE RANGED AGAINST HIM WAS UNWAVERING. BUT THIS MEANT RESOURCES ARRIVING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE
RIGHT TIME.
4.
KIMMITT (US STATE DEPARTMENT) ADDED THAT THE COALITION
AGAINST IRAQ REMAINED FIRM. THE UN WAS THE FOCAL POINT FOR EFFORTS ΤΟ PERSUADE THE IRAQIS THAT THE COSTS OF THEIR ACTION OUTWEIGHED THE GAINS. THE BASIS REMAINED THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF SANCTIONS. HE BELIEVED THAT THESE WERE HAVING SOME IMPACT IN IRAQ. IRAQI EXPORTS WERE DOWN ΤΟ 2 PERCENT OF PRE-CRISIS LEVEL, IMPORTS WERE ALSO DRASTICALLY DOWN, AND IRAQ WAS LOSING 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH IN OIL REVENUE. MEANWHILE THERE HAD BEEN 3,000 SHIP CHALLENGES, 350 BOARDINGS AND 14 DIVERSIONS. THE OTHER WEAPONS IN THE COALITION'S REMIT WERE POLITICAL AND MILITARY. STEPS WERE BEING TAKEN TO STRENGTHEN THE MILITARY OPERATION. THE USE OF FORCE COULD NOT BE RULED OUT. 27 NATIONS HAD NOW CONTRIBUTED TO THE MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES, THOUGH HALF OF THE TROOPS ON THE GROUND WERE AMERICAN.
5.
THAT
JORDAN'S
KIMMITT CONTINUED THAT HIS IMPRESSION WAS INTERNATIONAL AID TO EGYPT WAS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY. BUT MUCH WAS GOING TO TURKEY AND JORDAN. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS WAS NOW VERY GOOD. OF COURSE OTHER COUNTRIES WERE AFFECTED, AMONGST THEM, SYRIA, AND MOROCCO, WHO WERE CONTRIBUTING TROOPS, AND
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