BALLADUR URGES G-7 TO RESPECT LOUVRE ACCORD French Finance Minister Edouard Balladur said the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial countries should respect pledges on monetary policy made in the February Louvre accord on currency stability. "We have to strengthen the cooperation between the seven major industrial countries and remind ourselves of the pledges we made at the Louvre," he told journalists. "They were not simply pledges to maintain currency stability, but also to conduct a certain type of economic and monetary policy," he added.