Javier Perez De Cuellar

Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has accepted an invitation to visit Albania later this year as part of a tour of several Eastern European countries, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday. No date has been set.

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.

U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he has invited the foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq to resume stalled peace negotiations in Geneva next week and deal with the issues of troop withdrawal and prisoners of war. Perez de Cuellar said he expects to conduct the talks, beginning Monday, for four or five days and that a special representative will continue after he returns to New York.

An aborted conspiracy to falsify presidential and congressional election returns raised fears Saturday of fraud in today's nationwide balloting. Presidential candidate Javier Perez de Cuellar charged Saturday that President Alberto Fujimori was responsible for the "reelection fraud," in which 500 vote tally sheets were filled out in advance. Officials said most of the approximately 100,000 presidential votes on the sheets were for Fujimori.

U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati in an effort to get the stalled Iran-Iraq peace talks going again. Perez de Cuellar, in Belgrade for a summit conference of the Nonaligned Movement, told reporters Tuesday that he is ready to resume U.N.-supervised peace talks "any time, any place."

President Bush will meet today with U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and five Americans recently freed from captivity in Lebanon, the White House and the United Nations announced. The secretary general will be honored at a White House ceremony attended by Terry A. Anderson, Thomas M. Sutherland, Joseph J. Cicippio, Jesse Turner and Alann Steen.

Secretary General JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR said he regretted Iraq's attack and urged the Israelis to be "as patient as possible." He said there is not much that the United Nations can do about the gulf crisis now. Perez de Cuellar, who held talks with Hussein last weekend in a fruitless attempt to avert war, added that he has not been in touch with the Iraqis for days.

Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar expressed relief Wednesday that Gorbachev was back at the helm of his country, saying, "I am relieved and encouraged by the latest reports which would be seen to indicate that the crisis is, by and large, on the way to being resolved in a constitutional manner."

Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has decided to cut short a visit to Europe because of the tense international situation. The U.N. chief, who has been on official visits to Malta and Switzerland, dropped plans to attend a U.N. meeting this week in Geneva after he was informed officially by the United States about the U.S. attack on Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, a U.N. spokeswoman said.

Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. secretary general now running for the Peruvian presidency, has injected his campaign with all the excitement of a 300-page U.N. report on South American shipping regulations. Opponents of President Alberto Fujimori had hoped that a diplomat of Perez de Cuellar's stature would inspire the confidence of Peruvian voters, thwarting Fujimori's try for a second term in power. But it hasn't happened so far.

Tired of war and unfulfilled promises of peace, Salvadorans on Wednesday greeted the announcement of a United Nations-brokered cease-fire to end 12 years of civil war with cautious expressions of hope and customary skepticism. In the streets and on radio talk shows, Salvadorans said they are confused about the accord for a Feb. 1 cease-fire that was hammered out before midnight on New Year's Eve by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar during his final minutes in the international post.

In a tribute to the persistence and diplomatic skills of retiring U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani and rebel commanders reached agreement before midnight New Year's Eve on a cease-fire designed to end the country's 12-year civil war. The agreement on the cease-fire, which will take effect on Feb. 1, came just before Perez de Cuellar officially left the international post that he has held for two five-year terms.

President Bush will meet today with U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and five Americans recently freed from captivity in Lebanon, the White House and the United Nations announced. The secretary general will be honored at a White House ceremony attended by Terry A. Anderson, Thomas M. Sutherland, Joseph J. Cicippio, Jesse Turner and Alann Steen.

New movement on the Beirut hostage crisis was foreshadowed Saturday by the reported arrival of a key United Nations negotiator in Damascus, Syria, and an Iranian press dispatch saying that two Western captives, an American and a Briton, would be released soon. The report in today's editions of the Tehran Times said the releases would be made "on humanitarian grounds" and that the kidnapers would "most probably give priority to a British hostage." It did not speculate on the timing.

President Alfredo Cristiani said the main obstacles to ending El Salvador's 11-year-old civil war have been removed, but U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said negotiations are still at an impasse. Perez de Cuellar, in a statement read by his spokesman, said progress was made in the weeklong talks between the government and senior commanders of the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front but that "roadblocks" remain.

After a week of meetings with the opposing sides, U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar expressed cautious optimism Friday that his efforts to mediate an end to the 11-year-old civil war in El Salvador will succeed soon. "We have made progress" in restarting the peace talks, stalemated for the past two months over the issue of how to integrate the guerrilla units of the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into the civilian society, he told a press conference.

U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said Friday that he hopes to make more headway soon in his efforts to resolve the Middle East hostage crisis. In a related development, an Israeli plane brought home an exiled Palestinian and the remains of a missing Israeli soldier, representing another piece of the complicated effort to arrange a broad-based hostage agreement that would include freeing the 10 Westerners held in Lebanon.