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Article: Perez de Cuellar's Gulf Trip Ends in Apparent Failure
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- The Washington Post
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- September 16, 1987
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U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar ended four days of
talks on the Iran-Iraq war today with Tehran and Baghdad showing no
evident willingness to accept a cease-fire in their seven-year
conflict as demanded in a resolution of the U.N. Security Council.
The apparent failure of the peace mission, according to diplomats
and political observers in the Persian Gulf region, opens the
possibility of a new round of intense fighting and a major test of
superpower attitudes toward the conflict.
Shortly after Perez de Cuellar left Baghdad, an Iraqi military
communique said Iraqi troops had pounded various Iranian positions on
the battle front. Meanwhile, Kurdish guerrillas aligned with ...