Word: diplomat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once talks began in earnest, the Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...
...would counter that her government's belligerent stance was the only possible response to the original outrage of seizing the islands by force. Possibly Britain's greatest error was allowing the Falklands dispute to come to such a pass in the first place. Snaps one senior U.S. diplomat: "The British cannot escape some responsibility for not dealing with the situation before it blew...
...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...
...other ending that Britain now has in mind is a gradual invasion. As one senior British diplomat told TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, "The strategy is not a simple choice between war and peace. What the government intends is a stage-by-stage repossession, with partial landings on the West and then the East island, but with the door being left open for continuing diplomatic efforts. This means pushing the Argentines to the conference table on a realistic basis by exerting greater and greater military pressure until their nerve fails them...
...llar was not certain that he would be regarded as an objective mediator by both sides. The Secretary-General and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros, with whom he is dealing, were not only fellow South Americans and diplomatic neighbors but longtime personal friends as well. Pérez de Cuéllar told TIME's Louis Halasz: "I thought that perhaps at some stage British public opinion would say, 'This gentleman is from South America and he might tilt toward the Argentines.' But I must say the British government has always given me its full support...