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...produced a cease-fire between the two sides by noon E.D.T. on Friday. But the effort failed, and at week's end the best hope for peace seemed to rest with the United Nations and a vague proposal sponsored by its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Both Britain and Argentina maintained that they were pursuing the peace plan "urgently and constructively," but the language was contradicted by the mood: pessimism...
Meanwhile, a second possibility for negotiations was opening up at the U.N., through the offices of Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, himself a Peruvian. Some key details of Pérez de Cuéllar's peace proposals were deliberately unclear, but they also called for a cease-fire and pullback by the forces of both sides, as well as a temporary administration for the Falklands (this time under U.N. auspices...
...General's plan made no mention of the issue of ultimate sovereignty. Argentina was insisting that sovereignty is nonnegotiable, and Britain maintained that any settlement must respect the self-determination of the 1,800 Falkland Islanders, who are heavily in favor of remaining British. Pérez de Cuéllar set a midweek target for British and Argentine responses to his ideas, and a closed-door informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council was called the following day to consider the issue...
Argentina might well have had something like that in mind. The first response from Buenos Aires was to reject the Peruvian proposal out of hand. Then the junta seemed to reconsider. But on Wednesday, the Argentines informed Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar that they were examining the U.N. peace proposals with, as he put it, "great interest and a sense of urgency." A Foreign Ministry statement also declared that "the first step toward a solution must be an immediate cease-fire." There was no mention of military withdrawal. Britain's insistence on the opposite course...
...should be recognized." He reiterated that the country is "open to any diplomatic negotiations as long as they do not affect its honor and legitimate rights." The Argentines sent Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros to New York City to "explore the ideas" of Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar on peace in the Falklands and to provide unspecified "comments" on them...