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TRANS lAT ~ ONS O~V NEAR EAS'r AND NO RTN AFR I CA
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- TRANSLATIONS ON NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
(FOUO 8/79)
CONTENTS PAGE
INTER-~A,B AFFA]RS
OPEC Officials Consider Uses for' G*~ecial F1znd
(THE N1i.DDLE FA,ST, F1eb 79~ 1
U.S. Strategy in Mtddle Eaet Concentratea on Oil
(~w-wa~~~rr ~w- ~ t~si, t~ Jan 79 ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
NORTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS
Possibility of Improved Relations Among North Afr ican States
niacussed
( MARCflES TROPICAUX ET MEDI'I'gtRANEE~13, 26 Jan 79 13 -
- ALGERIA
Cooperation With France Di$cussed
(riaRC~s ~xoPic,~ux ~ r~nrr~.~xs, 26 Jan 79) , i8
Contract With TECffi~TIP-ENI
Cooperation With F~ench Company
Spe,ce Cooperation With France
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Report on Uren ium Activities in th~ Hoggar
(MARCHES ~tOPICAUX ET MEDITF~tRANEQIS, 2 F~eb 79) 20
- Contacts Abroad Concerning Housing Construction
(MARCSFS TROPICAUX II' MEDIT~RANE~TS~ 2 Feb ?9~ 22
- E~YPr
Fgyptie~n DissatisPaction With Quality of Life Diacussed
(AL-WATAN AL-~AR,ABI, 18 Jan 79) 23
KUWAIT
Canadian Firm Plane Drug ManuPacturing, Msrketing in Country
(Marilyn Mirabelli; T~ NLZDDLE EAST, F1~b 79) 29
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MOROCCO
Ma~azine Reports Maroccan Attitudes on A].geria, I'olieario
(Abdel.aziz De,hmani, Mohamed Selhami; J~'UNE AFRIQUE,
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3TJUl'ANA.TE OF OMA.N
- Dhofar OiZ Finds Bring New Developanent
(THE MIDDLE EAST, ~b 79) 34
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~ ~ INTER-ARAB AFFAIItB
~ OPEC OFFICIALS CONSIDER USES FOR SPECIAL FUPID
London THE MIDDY~ EAST Feb 79 pp 90-91 =
- ~TeXt ~ Although it ie acknowledged that the neede of the devel~ping countriee are -
far greater then oan be met by the combined el~orte of all �he world'a aid
inetitutione~ tbere ie ~rowing evidence to euggeet that available funtDe are
being blocked beaauee of a lsck of opeci8c outlets and uncertainty ae to
exaot~y how they ehould be epent. Naomi S'akr reports un the opinione ~
- expreeeed on thie iseue w~thin the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
Countriee (OPEC) and the agenciee it hae helped to eet up, _
Il ie becoming a matter of eome primerily OPEC membere, es 1 UNCTAD for eo-Tong. It ie ptn-
concem, among those who corn two of the world's moet n~cently PoeinB to PeY not on~y OPEC
eider the gap between the rich ' eetablished londing agencies ~ membe~s' contrlbuttone to the _
induetriulised cnun2riee and owe their exietence to OPEC. Common Fund but the con-
poorest developing countr,ee to These are the a1.8bn OPEC ~~t~~ of the 29 leaet
be widening dangerously, that 3pecisl Fund, e~teblIehed in developod oountriee ee well.
some of the newest agences set Jenuery 1978 and the Slbn The sP~~ s~~~
up to help the pooreet conntries international Fund for eaid~ pvee 70 loene a year on
may tind themeelves eubject to Agricultural Development averege, ca~ering about ~0
conntrainta in epeeding up die- (IFAD), eet up wft6 a~a436mn ~~t countriee in the pra -
bursement of their funde. conWbution from OPEC in ceee. Theee loane, rome for
'Thie time the potential corn December 1977. b~0� �f P~'~�n~ ~PP~
etraints are not the reeult of red The OPEC 3peciel Fund hee ~d ~ Pt'o~ lending,
tepe or unwieldy bureaucraciee achieved a eurprieing amount in ~~d maturity ia
- within the agencies themeelves ite two years in operation end ~ri8~y Y~. By the -
but are largely felt to be due to can hardly be preeented et thie ~d of 1978, 112 loet~e ehould `
= the fect thet there are not etage ae evidence of lending ~~mP~~ and the
enough carefullyetudied pra bo~*.i9necke. The Fund'e p~ ~ tO et leeet ~0 or 60
_ jecte to warrant loane, In fact ~irector-General Ibrahim 1�an�thi�year'
_ lhe new agencies have a con- 3hiheta, told The Middle Eaat But, he added, "tt takee taro
atitution which ie deliberately that ebout S900mn of ita capital ~~e a lonn. If we had waited
deeiRned to keep their etat~ing hae been committed and that for eppllcatione, by naar are
IevelA end infrestructure to a over half of thie hae been die- "~�Wd ~de perhape only
minimum and it ie that policy bu~, 16 or 20 loene. In many casee we
which in now beginning to reveal Mon.bver, the Special Fund offered eeeietence tather then
the denrth of pmject preperetion hes letely reet~irmed ;t~ rnm. ~'81t?e8 fet epplicatione."
_ c A p a b i I i t i e A i n t h o a e mitment to aupport the For IFAD the lack af euitable
Etec~traphical arees moet badly Common Ft~nd to etnbiliee com- appucaU�ne hae had e more
in need of funde on ea8y tetme, ruodity pricea w}UCh hae been ~~ble effect on lending. Hy the
The donore in thie caee are under negotietion within ~d of 1978, enacdy one year
after its lsunching, IFAD had bl
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. pru;ectn pending and had an� There can ~ be edventa~+ to Thie enpect nf IFAD'e lending
nounco~d 10 Iciens worth $12qmn relying on projecte tdentiHed p�~i~' p~'0~'0ked wme lively
ti~r lq dilTerent countriee, But it and prepared by other eources, debste at the Fund'e 9econd -
had actually diebureect nothtng, The OPEC $peciel Fund for its Govemtng Council meeting in
Llke the CPEC Special Fund, pert ~ivee prfority to co� ~me at the end of leet year,
IFAD too hae had to take the in� ftnencing of projecte which have There, the 12b member -
itiative in countriee were preeented with a
propoetng loene. already been �appreteed end hea prop~~~ ~awn up by the F.~�
Minnione were eent to 16 actually co�fu~anced in ep but ecutive Board, that epecial loene -
cc~uncrien durinq 1978 (not one of ite loans eo fsr, ~n highly conceeeional terme
- counting thoee countriee which This not only reeult~ in
received luane), half of them nt eavinge in time, money and ehould be provided preferebly
IFAD's nwn su ~ but not eaccluetve to countries
ggeetion and on(v etsfflng, uut, ae Shihuta ~Y
helf e~ the req~eet of the himself expleine, it allowe w1~Be Per ~ePita ir?come (in
govemmenta of the countries OPEC to etep {n es "gap 19'!8 dollere) ie epproalmately
concemed. A elmiler mix ie ex- 8nancier", maktng poeeible the ~ or leee.
pected for the ?b miesione which immeciiate implementation of sP~~~ ~~s ~n thia instanCe _
_ ere tn be eent thie year, projects which mtght otherwiee refer to intereet-free loane with a
But the reeulte of thoee mie� be poetponed indeRnitely until 1~o aervice charge and b0-year
Hi~me will teke time to the financing gep can be 811ed, meturity, and there ie a provieo -
materieline into diebureements. In addition, an agency drawn not exceed two-
~or example, IFAD'e Preeident, into a pro)ect et a later etnge of thirda of the totsl emount of
Abdel�Moheen al-$udeary of the preparation cycle ie in a ~oene which the Fund ir�.~~y
Seudi Arabia, recencly vieiced better poeition to aeeeee the pro� e:tend. It ia the existence of t}ue
the Sehel and announced thst ject. "two�thirde" atipulation that
IFAD wnuld be willtng to But co-financing in itself does ~~v~ two echoole of ~
finen.se e project In esch of the not enlarge the globsl pipeline of thought. -
Sah~!_an etatee. But tn do thls benkeble projecte, Md, ee the T~ dominant view on the
there hae to be e project in need dllemme within IFAD euggeets, Executive Bodrd fe that the
c~f financi and eomeone there is e Fund wae not eet up for the eo� _
nB growing feeling that, if t~hold countriee,
eomewhere hee to drsw it up. nsw project praperation euCh ae Me~ctco and Brezil,
Ae a eenior IFAD~ etaff capabilitiee are to be created ~~ch have reached e com-
t.~ember explained: It is thie ehould not happen within p~tively advanced etage of
e~+ential to realise that it can the big intemational egencies. development and have a per
~ take twc~ tc~ three yeare for e Inetead, ae World Food
project to run the full cycle fmm Council Preeident Arturo Tanco ' capita inoome, in many ceees, of
idea into bankeble pmpoeition. expleined at a recent preee con- ~er a1,000 a year. -
~ Many of the 61 projecta before ference, they ehould be Certainly, they eey, a pro-
- ue now are etill unly idees. We're developed within the needy P~rti�n �f IFAD money ehould _
trying to ehorten the cle se , pc,eeibly g� ~th e per cepita
~Y regions themselvee ~~~e of over $300, eince these
much es poeeible. Ae for the 10 through the regionel develop- loans wiu carry intereet rate~ of
Ic~ene egreed in the Fund'e firHt ment banke which have 4-8% and will have elwrter
year, theee had tn be far project~ fieathand knowledge of the area. ~aturitiee - meaning that the
which were elresdy well under IFAp would then, ae OPEC ie Fund can necou eome of ite
w~Y~~~ alrendy ~ing, cor,tinue to p
_ iFM'e smal) etaff of 80 or so "piggyr.back" on the exieting '~~y~ t~' 8dd, -
_ were ntretched to the lim~.t to pcoject appraieai inatitutione. a performence in 1978 put
echieve leet ear'e levei of the two-thude rule into ptactice,
Y Not everyone ie convinced, eince three of the lO loane agreed
ectivity snd, with commitmente hovvever, that che dearth of ~t to middle-income Third
Acheduled to triple to $376mn prepareri projecte ie univereal. W~~d atatee, nemely Ecuador,
- thie year, they have little pro- There is an argument which -
epect of sn easier time.'I~ey are eayre thet, in the ceee of IFAD, Guyena end the Philippinee,
hu~~n in fact to initiete ea A� f�T per caP~ta in~�n�e
r B thoee countriee wr,ich ere ~~,~g ir~de~c of need, '
many ee 10 or 12 of the 30 pm- capable of coming forwerd with
- jecte which are expected to be their ovm well-defined devel moet donor countriea in IFAD
eubmitted to the Executive �p' feel it to be quite eatisfactory.
ment echetcnee crnild ultimately g~pD d~~ ~uently -
Bosrd thie yeer; the remainder be deprived of funde becauee ~~e
will come fmm other develop- IF'pD'e lendinq rriteria are too m~~ the opinion that "
mentaeeietanceM~diee, reetrictive, con:entrating ~he ~ending po~cy, ae defined by,
, heavily on t}~e pc~reet of the the Ezecutive Board ehould be
poor es defined by per capita adopted withou~ further delqy,
incor,ne.
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ao ae G~ enable the Fund to m~ve approach would be to introduce dudtdalised bileteral � donor
- ahead nt Aill epeed, indicee other than per capita countriee the eecond, OPEC
In fact, the Govemin~ income to pinpo{nt countriee in donore the third and reci ient
Council did adopt the policy by need of IFAD'8 help. Theee in- developing countries the fourth.
coneeneue becauee it wae dicatore, ae euggeeted by the Eech group will be rcqutred to
etreeeed thst it would be Turkieh delegate, could include come to Bellegio having
� implemented flexibly an~i would a countey'e agricultural pro� reeearched into its own -
be reviewed at a leter etage, But ductton potentisl, {te unemploy- difficL'Ities end bottlenecke and
~ chie did not prevent aeveral ment etutue, ita belance of p~y it is hoped that, as e rneult, a
participsnte from expn9eeing mente, tt~ literecy rate and the new tide of development 8nance
their concern. per cep{ta inoome, will bexeleaeed, '
'I'he'llinieisn Ciovemor of the W}iether or not thie epecial
Fund, Moheen Bel Hac~j Amor, group pf oountrlee hae a eound ~imarlly thie money will be
told The Middle East that h~e caee will beoome epperent in the t� releing the growth in
country - like many othere in Fund'e eucceee rate in WOr~d agricultural output to at
~ the eame income bracket - wae implementing ite $376mn leaet 4% a year, but if thie comee
ready to abeorb IFAD 8nancinq lending target thie year. For the ~~t ae~ a reeult of e epring-
' atreiRht away. Wl~v, h'e 'ae
ec~c , moment there are eome doubts cleaning within the varioue
nhould funde be kept blceked ee to how fs~ the Fund, for all ~hen development in
� and fmzen until projecte can be the de~ication of ita etet~', can �~r eectore ehould beneflt ae
well.
prepared tn countriee thet; reallee the target aztd etill ~ ~he of the OPEC
conform to IFAD lendinq adhere to the lending criterta g~~ ~d ~ ac~ything to go
- criterie, when there are valid preecribed, eo long ae the by the membere of the third -
project~ ready and waiting for preeent ettitude oF moet in~ ~p ~ attend the oonference
~ Hnance in countriee ebove the duetrielieed dono~s ae regsrde the leeet spring cleaning to
~.9001eve1. mtnlmieing project preparation do. According to the leteet
'Itininie han mede sacriHces to facilitiee prevaile. OECD eld review, OPEC
echieve itn per capita Income of Thet attitude, frequently ex� ~8~~~~ joint~y end in-
$8fi0 a year end, he eaid, (in line preeeed in the phrase we don t ~hduelly, euetained e le-rel of
with saveral independent went to eee a eingle dollar of thie -
obeeivete ineide'I~nieie) ie etill hard-won money go to weete", �~"~r ~.bbn i~ net die-
_ bed~y in need of a finel doee of may be founded on s eincere bureemente of conceeeionel
rnnceeeional lending to help it to deeire .�or economy, or, es eome ~~n
croee the development obeerveis euepect, on a wieh to ~~m 5~~~ hee pointed
� threehold. ~;~m~n- ~ u~ ei. out that in 1977 OPEC donore
gave at least 2,6 times ee much
. There ie no guerantee, the dog", dependent on the ae the US end that, . if in-
- 'i~nleien repreeentative con- technical back-up of other UN d~~~
tinued, that, once the two-thirde agenciee. ~~1~~ ~
rule ie writtsn into the Certainly the dilemma ie in the eame ratio of nid to GNP es
n~Ranieation'e terma of need of further diecueeion and OPEC membe~, they would
referenc~, any future menegeriel intereated partiee are hoping ~ 10 times
Ix~dy will apply the rule as ~ that this discuaeion will take the amount they actuelly gave .
(lexibly an mc~et middle-income place at the coming world food ~ ig~,
recipients would hope. conference, planned for Bepsgio Nevertheleae, all fwr groups
Thene ~entimentn are ehared (Italy) in April. The purpaee of feel they can benefit from taking
hy n numt~er ~~f tFAD membere ~ thia conference ie to identify and a freeh look et their operatione
wil h cK~~m~~mic charecterietta+ eort out lending conetrainte. , and it is only auch a proceee
Nimilnr lo 'iliniAia'A, includinR Participeticm in the con� which can reveal, once and for
~ti~untri~w nuch nn Morocm, ference will follow four fl~~, exectly where the ehortco-
~innclnn end 'il~rkev nnd others cate~rien, the intemational eid miry;s in development aid lie.
in I.