Javier Perez de Cuellar helped bring an end to fighting in Cambodia and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
When he left office as secretary-general, he had attained a peace pact between the Salvadoran government and leftist rebelsLIMA, Peru—Javier Perez de Cuellar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and later came out of retirement to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland, died Wednesday, Peru’s foreign ministry said. He was 100.
His son, Francisco Perez de Cuellar, said his father died at home of natural causes. Javier Perez de Cuellar was “an outstanding Peruvian, a full-bodied democrat, who dedicated his life and work to making our country great,” tweeted...
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