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.