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...secretary-general and Iran's foreignminister, Ali Akbar Velayati, met for three hoursyesterday in their sixth recent meeting...
...secretary-general and Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, met for three hours yesterday in their sixth recent meeting...
...officials moved quickly to get peacekeeping machinery in place. Perez de Cuellar invited Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to meet with him in New York this week to discuss cease-fire arrangements. Two U.N. teams were preparing to make separate visits to Tehran and Baghdad. One will investigate the status of some 70,000 prisoners of war held by the two sides. The other, led by Norwegian Lieut. General Martin Vadset, commander of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, will arrange details of a cease-fire. The cease-fire team's report, Perez...
...Iranian hands, including the Fao peninsula, staging areas east of Basra, and the oil-rich Majnoun islands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Khomeini desperately searched for ways to turn the tide, handing over command of the country's armed forces in June to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful and relatively pragmatic speaker of parliament...
Simultaneously, Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's Foreign Minister, was trying to convince the Security Council that the shootdown was deliberate. He read a transcript of conversations between the pilot of the doomed Airbus and Iranian flight controllers that seemed to indicate that Flight 655 had been proceeding at a normal altitude, speed and flight path. However, on one crucial point -- whether the U.S.S. Vincennes had tried to warn the Airbus -- the transcript was inconclusive. Flight 655 received no warnings, but the pilot may have been too busy chattering to his ground controllers to listen to an emergency channel over which...