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To: GST who wrote (28610)	2/19/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116894

Well, I guess I would try to do just that... i have my doubts though that Europe is prepared to relinquish its power to Rotshilds as they have in previous centuries without a fight or call it hedge :) Certainly Rotschilds can absorb most of the EMU gold in next 10-15 years..but what than?

To: GST who wrote (28610)	2/19/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116894

Signs of the time.. Chirac, Clinton Agree On Kosovo, Differ On Bananas 06:47 p.m Feb 19, 1999 Eastern By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton and French President Jacques Chirac stood shoulder to shoulder Friday in urging Yugoslavia to accept a Kosovo peace deal and agreed to disagree on issues from bananas to currencies. After a day of talks marked by a cordiality once absent from U.S.-French relations, the presidents emerged to tell reporters that Belgrade must embrace a peace deal by Saturday or face a pounding from NATO air strikes. ''We ... stand united in our determination to use force if Serbia fails to meet its previous commitment to withdraw forces from Kosovo and if it fails to accept the peace agreement,'' Clinton said at a joint news conference. Saying Washington and Paris were in ''complete agreement,'' Chirac warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that ''the time has come to shoulder all his responsibilities and to choose the path of wisdom and not the path of war.'' Their united front on Kosovo, the southern Yugoslav province where ethnic Albanians are fighting for independence, did not extend to a number of other issues where the United States and France have long disagreed, including on the banana trade. Clinton ruefully acknowledged he and Chirac had discussed the dispute, which has vexed U.S.-European relations for years. The United States argues that a prior European Union trade regime on the fruit unfairly favored bananas from former British and French colonies in the Caribbean and Africa to the detriment of some Central American countries and U.S. companies. A World Trade Organization panel found in 1997 that the EU banana regime violated its rules, siding with the United States, which now wants to impose sanctions worth $520 million a year to cover estimated losses by U.S. companies. The United States, which argues that EU's current banana regime is also unfair, plans to impose sanctions on March 3. ''We're being quite strong about it because we do have companies involved ... and because we think the trade law is clear,'' Clinton said. ''We don't want to provoke a trade crisis, but we won,'' Clinton added. ''The Europeans are basically saying, well, you won this trade fight under the law but we still don't think you have a meritorious position, therefore we will not yield.'' Chirac appeared delighted that the dispute was raised in public, and gave no ground. ''President Clinton just said that the United States had ... corporations involved,'' Chirac said. ''My answer is that we have the actual workers who are involved.'' A U.S. official said the two men also discussed global financial flows, with Chirac reiterating his desire to see more cooperation between the United States and Europe to maintain stability between the euro, the dollar and the yen. Clinton, in response, reiterated the laissez-faire approach advocated by U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who earlier this week stressed that the United States believed ''the way you achieve stability is through fundamental economic policy.'' Clinton and Chirac also discussed Iraq, where France has been pushing for an easing of the oil embargo imposed on Baghdad after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Other issues included strengthening economic reform in Russia and devising rules to make the world financial system more open and less vulnerable to dislocations like the Asian financial crisis. Chirac, who arrived in Washington Thursday, is due to meet U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York Saturday before flying back to Paris. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.