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Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian two-term UN chief, dies at 100

by Associated Press
| March 5, 2020 11:30 AM

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations 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, has died. He was 100.

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