21.   Putin had sought without success to mediate the conflict during a meeting earlier this week of Asian leaders in Kazakhstan.

22.   African leaders appointed to mediate the conflict were planning to recommend ways to implement the agreement, he said.

23.   ASEAN has sought a role in mediating the conflict and sent the three ministers to confer with Hun Sen shortly after the coup.

24.   ASEAN has sought a role in mediating the conflict and sent the three foreign ministers to confer with Hun Sen shortly after the coup.

25.   Boutros-Ghali has asked the former undersecretary-general for political affairs, James Jonah, to travel to Liberia to help mediate the conflict.

26.   Both leaders praised the work of the United Nations and a number of guarantor countries who helped mediate the conflict and monitor the peace agreement.

27.   But he said Clinton does not intend to use the meeting with Sharif as an attempt to mediate the conflict.

28.   Carter has mediated conflicts earlier this year in Haiti and North Korea.

29.   Eritrea is a member of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, which has tried to mediate the conflict in Sudan.

30.   Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev Thursday offered to mediate the conflict between Russia and the breakaway republic of Chechnya.