World IN BRIEF : MIDDLE EAST : Iran Rejects Iraqi Proposal for Talks
From Times staff and Wire reports
Iran dismissed an Iraqi proposal for reviving peace talks between the two countries as “a new campaign of public deception,” the official IRNA news agency reported. The dispatch said Iraq’s three-point plan merely rewords previous Iraqi demands. Talks on a permanent end to the eight-year conflict have been stalemated since a cease-fire in August, 1988. IRNA noted that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to address simultaneous withdrawal of his troops and the repatriation of thousands of prisoners of war--key Iranian demands.
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