Kofi Annan named a new U.N. envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Peruvian diplomat Alvaro de Soto is the U.N.’s new special coordinator, replacing Terje Roed-Larsen. De Soto, a longtime U.N. official, drafted the peace agreement that ended the civil war in El Salvador and was the key U.N. negotiator for unsuccessful efforts to unify Cyprus.
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