71.  Meanwhile Italian Treasury Minister Lamberto Dini said that concerted action by central banks had not been planned during the summit to support the dollar.

72.  Netanyahu called last week for concerted international action against Syria after a Damascus-based Palestinian group killed three Israeli soldiers in an ambush along the Jordan border.

73.  She said that rumours that central banks might mount concerted action had supported the dollar, but such action had not materialised.

74.  The Australian government summoned French ambassador Dominique Girard to parliament to express its condemnation and trade union called for concerted action against France.

75.  The dollar derived support from a suspicion that central banks might mount concerted action to support it.

76.  The EU continues nevertheless to favour taking concerted action with Washington.