Word: stoltenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude in Seoul toward Baker's debt-crisis proposal was also positive. Said West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg: "This points in the right direction." His French colleague Pierre Beregovoy concurred: "It is an idea whose time has come." Peru, however, objected to the leadership role of the U.S. Said Finance Minister Luis Alva Castro: "We do not accept there being a single country that is subject to no control whatsoever while the countries of the Third World are condemned to hunger." Even so, Brazil's Minister of Finance, Dilson Funaro, whose country is the biggest Latin American debtor, said...
...What am I supposed to do with arrogant and uncomprehending people?" Unless the E.M.S. could be realigned to France's advantage, Delors threatened, France would withdraw, a move that would severely undermine what little European unity exists. Delors held 13 separate meetings with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, some lasting hours, some just a few minutes. According to a West German insider, Delors's behavior was "beyond belief." He was said to have threatened, raged and thrown temper tantrums. Said Stoltenberg privately of the marathon negotiations: "It was an experience I would not want to repeat...