The World - News from July 23, 1985
The four Contadora Group nations opened a special meeting on Contadora Island in Panama, where they first met to seek peace in Central America in January, 1983, and urged the Reagan Administration to resume talks with Nicaragua. The United States suspended those talks in January, citing Nicaraguan intransigence. The foreign ministers of Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and Panama said, “The only thing we’re missing to finish the rough draft of the Act of Peace are the security aspects,” but that is the toughest issue facing them.
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