11.   According to the union, the chief mediator advised both sides that additional negotiations would be called soon.

12.   As the chief mediator in talks aiming to solve the Burundi conflict, Mandela often travels across Africa meeting with officials.

13.   As chief mediator, Mandela has been eager to move quickly and put in place peacekeepers to ensure that a peace agreement can be implemented.

14.   At the same time, the chief African mediator in Congo, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, has been preparing for a new round of peace talks.

15.   Blair, a political ally of U.S. President Bill Clinton, reiterated Monday that he was not trying to upstage the Americans as the chief mediators in the negotiations.

16.   Bosnia and Serbia will establish diplomatic ties, chief U.S mediator Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday night.

17.   But after chief U.S. mediator Richard C. Holbrooke gave U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher a report Friday night, U.S. officials took a more cautious approach.

18.   But chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke has repeated that the Dayton agreement cannot be renegotiated.

19.   But the rebels and the chief mediator, former Botswana president Ketumile Masire, rejected the deal.

20.   Chiluba has been the chief mediator of the conflict.