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E-030/00
February 18, 2000

 

FORMER GUATEMALA FOREIGN MINISTER TO
HEAD UP OAS ELECTORAL MISSION IN PERU

 

Eduardo Stein, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, met today in Washington with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), César Gaviria, to discuss his appointment as Chief of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission to Peru.

Mr. Stein will take up his appointment on March 1. While in Washington he also met with Elizabeth Spehar, the Executive Coordinator of the OAS Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, and to review arrangements for the mission.

Peruvians will go to the polls for general elections next April 9.

 

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