IBC PRESIDENT NOT TO ATTEND ICO EXECUTIVE BOARD

  Brazilian Coffee Institute (IBC)
  president Jorio Dauster said he will not attend the ICO
  executive board meeting and was surprised to hear that a report
  of his absence had a slightly depressing effect on the New York
  coffee market today.
      "I have too much work to accomplish here in Brazil at the
  moment. Besides the presence of the IBC president at an ICO
  executive board meeting is not a tradition," Dauster said.
      Dauster said except in rare cases, Brazil has always sent
  its London-based representative to ICO board meetings.
  Ambassador Lindenberg Sette will attend the meeting, he said.
  

