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Latin America hopeful of banana compromise
LONDON. May 23 : The leaders of Honduras. Panama and Costarica said here they were hopeful of success tn their mission to persuade the European Community to modify proposals to slap import quotas on Laltn American bananas, reports Reuter.
Presidents Rafael Callejas of Honduras. Guillermo Endara of Panama and Rafael Angel Calderon of Costa Rica told reporters they were pleased with their talks this week with British Prime Minister John Major and French President Francois Mitterrand.
Later on Thursday they look their case against last month s EC executive commission banana, quota proposals to commission president Jacques Delors in Brussels.
Callejas, asked whether he believed they would achieve a breakthrough and find a compromise, replied, "We would hope so."
"It follows...that some sort of acceptable determination will be taken into account by the European Community," he added.
Callejas said he did not yet know whether the EC was preparing to change its position on the quotas designed to protect Caribbean and African banana producers. But he added: "This Is something that we arc trying to convince them to do."
Costa Rica's Calderon said Latin American banana exporting countries did not want to damage the position of the so-called ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) states.
But he said the EC's plans would hurt their own economics. Latin American producers rely on the EC for billion dollar revenue , from bananas every year.
Endara said the proposals also ran counter to the west's free trade philosophy.
"We are being advised to open up but we see things closing in other places," he said. "We have come here to ask them to do what they preach...to keep markets open. But we don't warit to damage our friends and neighbours from the Caribbean."
Britain wants to protect its traditional Caribbean suppliers, while Spain. Portugal and Greece as well as France want a secure market for their own producers.
France has special interests to protect as some of its Caribbean territories and former colonies In West Africa also want to find markets for their bananas.
Callejas said the Latin American producers would be happy with the status quo — maintaining their current share of the EC market in bananas estimated at about 60 per cent -- because that would mean a steady share of a growing market.
But he said that while both Major and Mitterrand had expressed support for such a compromise. 1t presented a technical problem for the 12-natlon EC bloc when Ms single market Is created at the end of this year.