Swede Leading Iran-Iraq Talks
Associated Press
GENEVA —
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar left the deadlocked Iran-Iraq peace talks today and put a Swedish diplomat in temporary charge of trying to get the negotiations moving again.
Jan Eliasson, Sweden’s U.N. ambassador, arrived from New York to continue Perez de Cuellar’s work of seeking a compromise between the belligerents. Perez de Cuellar departed for other U.N. duties in Lisbon but said he could return when necessary. Meanwhile, Iran accused Iraq today of taking 752 Iranian troops prisoner since the cease-fire went into effect.
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