The World - News from April 12, 1989

Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told the U.N. secretary general that Israel does not need its help for now in advancing the ideas of Mideast peace. At a meeting in New York initiated by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, Shamir said he is still against convening a U.N.-backed international peace conference on the Middle East. An Israeli spokesman said Perez de Cuellar took a great interest in Shamir’s proposal for Palestinian elections in Israeli-occupied territories. Meanwhile, Zehdi Terzi, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s observer at the United Nations, said the secretary general would meet with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat later this month in Europe.