The World - News from April 27, 1986

U.S. special envoy Philip C. Habib told Panamanian President Eric A. Delvalle that the Reagan Administration is willing to try to find a way to gain passage of the Contadora peace plan. The 45-minute meeting was “very positive,” Foreign Minister Jorge Abadia Arias said. He said Habib had expressed “in a very clear and precise way” U.S. interest in “adding flexibility” to the Administration’s position on peace efforts by the Contadora Group--Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama.