Truce Observers Set Up Offices in Tehran, Baghdad
U.N. truce observers set up temporary headquarters in the Iranian and Iraqi capitals Wednesday, and the United Nations gave formal approval to a stopgap budget to fund the multinational peacekeeping force.
Approval of the funding resolution by the U.N. General Assembly in New York came as several more contingents of the 12-nation, 350-member U.N. Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group arrived in the Persian Gulf region to monitor a truce beginning Saturday.
“With this step by the General Assembly, the process we have initiated for lasting peace between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq will be further strengthened,” U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said.
The stopgap resolution providing $35.7 million--half of the estimated $74-million budget for the six-month operation--was drafted Tuesday as the United Nations, financially crippled since the United States stopped paying dues to spur reform, scrambled to raise funding for the peacekeeping force.
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