ICO PACT UNLIKELY BY AUTUMN - ITALIAN ADVISER

  The prospects of the
  International Coffee Organization (ICO) reaching an agreement
  on coffee export quotas before September appear dim, Alberto
  Hesse, former president of the European Coffee Federation,
  said.
      "There is no real goodwill in certain delegations to go to
  quotas," Hesse, who advises the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry
  on coffee issues, told Reuters. He declined to name the
  delegations.
      A special meeting between importing and exporting countries
  ended in a deadlock late yesterday after eight days of talks
  over how to set quotas.
      The ICO executive board will meet from March 30 to April 1
  but the full council is not due to meet again until September.
  "I am not optimistic about an agreement soon," Hesse said.
  

