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...sooner had Baker, briefing reporters, uttered his first "regrettably" than a haggle of diplomats began to accelerate the push for alternative peace initiatives. Among them were efforts by the French, the European Community and the Algerians to act as interlocutors. Most notably, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced he would go to Baghdad to see Saddam. "The window for peace has not widened, but neither has it been slammed shut," said German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...
...defeating. It would hand a victory to Saddam Hussein, giving him both the resolve to continue the war and the breathing space he needs to retrench. Both Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), who led the fight against the use-of-force resolutions, and U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who made a last ditch appeal for peace, have spoken out against a unilateral cease-fire. One doesn't throw the first punch and then try to reason with the person thus provoked...
Those familiar with negotiations, however, said they still held out some hope that a shooting war could be avoided. Specifically, some pointed to the expected trip by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to Baghdad on Saturday as a chance to work something out that would satisfy both the Americans and the Iraqis...
...problem up to now is that Bush and Hussein need a way out," said Andrea C. Kupfer, a research assistant to Professor Roger Fisher, a member of the Harvard Project on Negotiation who was an advisor to the Carter Administration. "This is where Perez de Cuellar could serve as a mediator, promising that on the conditions of withdrawal, sanctions would be ceased, there would be no attack, and the next logical issue, the Palestinian conflict, could be adressed...
Israel's troubles with the U.N. keep growing. Last week Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar proposed a direct Security Council role in protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a report ordered by the council after 20 Arabs were killed by Israeli forces on Jerusalem's Temple Mount last month, Perez de Cuellar suggested the 164 nations that signed the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention convene to discuss ways to prevent human-rights violations in the territories, including the designation of a "protecting power" for the Palestinians...