FILE PHOTO: Former United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar during an interview with Reuters in his Lima home, Peru February 18, 1998. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
LIMA (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, a Peruvian diplomat who played a crucial role in ending the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 to 1988, died on Wednesday at his home in Lima aged 100.
Perez de Cuellar was a two-time head of the United Nations, which he led from 1982 to 1991 as some of the iciest years of the Cold War gave way to the end of the Soviet Union and greater efforts at international cooperation.
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