Perez de Cuellar to Be Ambassador to France
Former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who served for the last eight months as Peru’s provisional Cabinet chief, said he has been named ambassador to France.
Perez de Cuellar, 81, came out of retirement last year to serve as prime minister and foreign minister in the transitional government of Valentin Paniagua, interim president after the disgraced Alberto Fujimori fled to Japan.
Foreign Minister Diego Garcia Sayan was quoted in the newspaper La Republica as saying that President Alejandro Toledo, who took office last month, was naming Perez de Cuellar to the Paris job as his first ambassadorial appointment.
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