Word: javier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adjourn the day's session, a move made presumably at Soviet insistence. Wiejacz's parliamentary maneuver provoked even more vituperation from the West. Snapped French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who was next in line when the speakers were cut off: "This is democracy à la East." Added Javier Rupérez, Spanish delegate: "The Polish delegate has declared martial law in Madrid...
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...
...been checkered by purges, 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...