The Council commended the work of the Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and his Personal Representative for Central America, as well as the efforts of the "Group of Friends" Colombia, Mexico, Spain and Venezuela in the peace process. It also urged the parties that, in the next round of talks scheduled for October 1991, to continue intensive and sustained negotiations in order to reach a ceasefire at the earliest possible date, further calling for restraint and co-operation with the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador.