	louvre accord vital to w germany stoltenberg west german finance minister gerhard stoltenberg said the louvre accord was vital to west germany stoltenberg told a news conference given west germany s unusually high dependence on world trade and exports it is vital for west germany to continue its constructive contribution to trusting international cooperation on the basis of the louvre accord some monetary analysts have speculated that inflation conscious bundesbank vice president helmut schlesinger may have been leading the central bank to a course of tighter monetary policy stoltenberg is due to attend a routine bundesbank meeting on thursday in west berlin he declined to forecast what if any policy decisions the bundesbank might take reuter 
