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Even as Britain and Argentina stiffened their resolve, efforts continued to find a diplomatic solution. At the U.N., the Security Council voted after lengthy debate to instruct Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar to "negotiate mutually acceptable terms for a ceasefire" between London and Buenos Aires. He was given a week to try to achieve this impossible task before reporting back to the council...
...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...
Costa Méndez's remarks may have been a bid for one last peace-keeping effort, possibly under the aegis of the U.N. and its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuellar. Even though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had earlier ruled out the possibility of any U.N.-sponsored peace effort, British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym announced in London that he would be returning to the U.S., first to consult with Secretary of State Haig and then to visit the U.N. in Manhattan. But Pym also had tough words for Costa Méndez...
With surprising ease, the 15-member Security Council recommended the appointment of Javier Pérez de Cuellar, 61, a Peruvian diplomat virtually unknown outside diplomatic circles. The 157-member General Assembly is expected to ratify the choice this week...
...imprisonment and exile, comes across as a moderate who has little stomach for the intrigue that characterized the regimes of his two predecessors, Noor Mohammed Taraki and Hafizullah Amin. He said that his government would "warmly welcome" the scheduled visit of U.N. Special Representative Javier Pérez de Cuellar, who was due in Kabul as part of an ongoing search for a possible international settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. In that regard, Karmal also said that he was interested in bilateral talks with Pakistan, but, he added bitterly, "the governing military junta in Islamabad has no free will...