Word: cuellar
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Amid other signs of movement on the hostage issue, Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, called for all parties to cooperate with U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who is leading diplomatic efforts to free the captives...
From Tehran, Velayati didn't make any predictions, but he expressed support yesterday for the efforts of Perez de Cuellar, who ended three days of talks on the hostages with Iranian leaders on Friday...
...Perez de Cuellar attempted to untangle that knot, he also dealt with the immediate question of Israel's seven MIAs. Jerusalem vowed to release no prisoners until it had concrete information about the soldiers' whereabouts. In turn, a senior Hizballah source in Beirut warned, "No more Westerners will be released until Israel frees at least some prisoners...
...Greece, five in Italy, three in Spain, three in Sweden and one in Switzerland. Most of these men have been convicted of crimes; the others are awaiting trial for acts ranging from the importation of explosives to the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Perez de Cuellar signaled that the release of any of these prisoners would not be considered; he called them a "legal problem," as distinct from the "political problem" of the hostages...
...before the Middle East peace conference that is expected to be convened in October. From their distant captivity, some of the Western hostages sent word through recently released hostages that even they believe an end to their ordeal is finally at hand. Perhaps most promising of all, Perez de Cuellar -- the point man in all of this -- is increasingly tight-lipped. As diplomats know, when negotiations are truly moving forward, the dealmakers usually have less and less...