The World - News from Sept. 20, 1989
The U.N. special envoy for the Persian Gulf, Jan Eliasson, will begin a shuttle mission between Iran and Iraq in late October to try to revive stalled peace talks, Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said. Despite a truce in August, 1988, that ended the fighting in the eight-year-long Persian Gulf War, virtually no progress has been made in extending it into a full-fledged peace settlement.
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