Iranian Top Diplomat Condoles over Demise of Ex-UN Chief
TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif offered his condolences over the death of former United Nations secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
“Saddened to hear of the passing of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, UN Secretary General from 1982 to 91,” Zarif said on his Twitter account on Thursday.
“As a young diplomat, I came to appreciate his skill—he oversaw the end to many conflicts, including a cease fire in the war Saddam imposed on Iran,” he wrote, adding, “My condolences to his family.”
Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term UN secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland, died on Wednesday at the age of 100.
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