Perez de Cuellar Accepts Post as Peru's Ambassador to FranceFormer U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who served for the last eight months as Peru's provisional Cabinet chief, said Thursday that he's been named Peru's 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 on Thursday 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. Perez de Cuellar told Peru's CPN radio that he plans to accept the post in France, where he has lived for much of the last decade. A lawyer and career diplomat, Perez de Cuellar served two terms as U.N. chief, from 1982 to 1991. |
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