For the Record (2)

October 22, 1980

Islamic Conference envoy Habib Chatti said he was very optimistic about Iran's response to his proposal that a delegation of heads of Islamic countries should try to solve the conflict between Iran and Iraq. But the Tunisian secretary-general of the 40- state Conference of Islamic Nations conceded that the position of Iran is still very far from that or Iraq, "and it will not be very easy to find a common ground between them."