STILL NO PROGRESS

THE RECENT GCC MISSION to Tehran and Baghdad, ostensibly to obtain an agreement on dealing with the Gulf oil slick problem, also carried outline proposals for an end to the fighting between Iran and Iraq (see Last issue of Gulf States Newsletter). A key element in the GCC peace package was a suggestion to set up a largely Gulf financed fund to repair war-damage in the two countries; a proposal obviously designed to meet in part Iranian demands for war reparations.