DREYFUS INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.

                      Certificate of Assistant Secretary

           The undersigned, Robert R. Mullery, Assistant Secretary of Dreyfus
      International Funds, Inc. (the "Fund"), hereby certifies that set forth
      below is a copy of the resolution adopted by the Fund's Board
      authorizing the signing by Mark N. Jacobs, Steven F. Newman, Michael A.
      Rosenberg, John B. Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky, Robert R. Mullery, and
      Janette Farragher on behalf of the proper officers of the Fund pursuant
      to a power of attorney:

           RESOLVED, that the Registration Statement and any and all amendments
           and supplements thereto may be signed by any one of Mark N. Jacobs,
           Steven Newman, Michael Rosenberg, John Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky,
           Robert R. Mullery, and Janette Farragher, as the attorney-in-fact for
           the proper officers of the Fund, with full power of substitution and
           resubstitution; and that the appointment of each of such persons as
           such attorney-in-fact hereby is authorized and approved; and that
           such attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, shall have full power and
           authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
           and necessary to be done in connection with such Registration
           Statement and any and all amendments and supplements thereto, as whom
           he or she is acting as attorney-in-fact, might or could do in person.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Consent as of the
25th day of September, 2002.


                                          Robert R. Mullery
                                          Assistant Secretary



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DREYFUS INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.