The World - News from Feb. 19, 1989

Military officers from Iran and Iraq will meet Wednesday at their common border to help stabilize a cease-fire, U.N. peacekeepers announced. U.N. officials said each country will be represented by 10 officers who will work with their governments and the U.N. observers to resolve problems in carrying out the Aug. 20 cease-fire agreement that halted the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. But in Baghdad, Tarik Aziz, Iraq’s foreign minister, said he sees no hope of positive results from fresh peace talks “if the Iranian side continues evading basic issues and insists only on propaganda.”