81.   France also said that the main countries contributing troops are against sending them outside the Afghan capital.

82.   Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen said Wednesday that his government is considering a U.S. request to contribute troops to a possible Persian Gulf force.

83.   German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has said Germany will not contribute troops but left open the possibility helping in other ways.

84.   Germany, he says, would likely contribute troops to the U.S.-led campaign.

85.   Greece says it will only contribute troops to the NATO force if both sides in the conflict agree to their deployment.

86.   Greece has said it will only contribute troops to a NATO force in Kosovo if Yugoslavia agrees to its deployment.

87.   He held out the possibility of persuading Finland to contribute more troops also.

88.   He insisted none of the NATO nations contributing troops to the U.N. force in Bosnia has any immediate plans to pull them out.

89.   He said it was uncertain if Belgium would contribute troops.

90.   He would not specify whether other countries contributed troops.