European Community official

European Community officials would not comment on the talks.

European Community officials have said they will not send observers unless a cease-fire is established.

The former European Community official said he supported the coalition.

European Community officials said they would consider the republic's application for recognition once the results of the referendum are available.

American and European Community officials have been negotiating the dispute.

"It showed the emperor really has no clothes," said a European Community official.

European Community officials said they were cutting tariffs by 20 to 100 percent on 140 tariff categories.

A European Community official said the community was prepared to continue talking.

European Community officials are pushing a compromise that would maintain existing quotas at current levels and not allow new ones.

But European Community officials expressed surprise that the Americans were disappointed.

These complaints amount to "a declaration of economic warfare," one European Community official said.

Last month European Community officials announced a trade pact with Hungary.

European Community officials have resisted the proposal, asserting that it would drive millions of small farmers out of business.

British officials and European Community officials also called Washington's action harmful to free trade.

It said a deal as described by the community's executive commission did not increase its farmers' incomes enough, a European Community official said.

European Community officials said they would continue to press for some kind of compromise, but Britain has shown no signs of yielding.

A European Community official said certification of exports to the United States was a routine matter.

But European Community officials deny that they are barring Japanese access to Europe's 320 million consumers.

A European Community official in Brussels said the proposals would probably be received favorably by the organization's executive commission and member countries.

He said he hoped European Community officials would not succumb to the pressures of the protesting farmers.

A European Community official in Washington said it was likely it would take several months to re-establish trade lines cut off since the mid-1980s.

"It came as a surprise," said Fraser Cameron, a European Community official.

European Community officials seemed as excited by today's agreement as Mr. Shevardnadze.

But senior British and European Community officials said Washington had blocked an accord because of concerns that it would hurt economic growth.

Much of the food still remains to be sent because of distribution problems in the Soviet Union, a European Community official said.