VOL. XXXII

NO. 1

10-OCTOBER-1988

The Middle East Situation

Having switched the venue of the peace talks between Iran and Iraq to NewYork in an attempt to break the deadlock in Geneva, UN Secretary General Perezde Cuellar at first appeared to have run into the same obstacles that hadfrustrated his representative's efforts in Switzerland. But after oneface-to-face meeting between the two sides and three days of subsequent indirectcontacts, the talks made what the Iranian Foreign Minister described...