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...rhetoric of the belligerents grew harsher, U.N. Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, facing his first frontline test as the U.N.'s top diplomat, was attempting to ease the tension. Perez de Cuellar had assumed responsibility for mediating the dispute on April 30, after a month-long peace-keeping effort by U.S. Secretary of State Haig ended in failure. Perez's peace proposals do not differ markedly from those originally put forward by Haig. They include: 1) a ceasefire; 2) phased and corresponding withdrawal of Argentine troops and the British fleet; 3) establishment...
Unlike Haig, however, Pérez de Cuéllar has concentrated on the procedural details, such as the sequence of troop withdrawals and the membership of the interim administration, rather than the substantive differences between the disputants, The key to Pérez de Cuéllar's mediation has been to avoid all discussion of the most difficult issue: ultimate sovereignty over the islands...
...Cuéllar's efforts were helped by the fact that both London and Buenos Aires were sobered by the sinking two weeks ago of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, with 321 fatalities, and the British destroyer Sheffield, which lost 20 men. Britain had backed away from a demand for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Argentine troops from the Falklands. In their talks with Pérez de Cuéllar, the British also indicated that they would accept a temporary U.N. administration of the Falklands...
...some of his fellow diplomats at United Nations headquarters in New York City, there is a sweet irony in the fact that newly named Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 62, is acting as the intermediary who is seeking a compromise between London and Buenos Aires over the Falklands crisis. The tall, white-haired Peruvian is himself a compromise choice for a job that many doubted he could fill. When China consistently vetoed an unprecedented third term as Secretary-General for Kurt Waldheim and the U.S. would not accept Tanzanian Foreign Minister Salim Ahmed Salim...
...Falklands crisis is by far the most serious issue Pérez de Cuéllar has faced, and those who worked with him wondered how he would handle it. He is so self-effacing at times that on at least one occasion he was asked by a guard at the U.N. to produce identification. One of his favorite diplomatic words is caution. His fanaticism for order drives him to rearrange other people's bookshelves...