11.   Buthelezi wants foreign mediators to settle the issue of regional powers instead of leaving it to the elected chamber.

12.   Dodik has such strong international backing for his rejection of the hard-line policies of wartime Serb leader Radovan Karadzic that foreign mediators were loathe to undermine him now.

13.   Elsewhere, heavy snow appeared to be doing as much to silence guns as U.N. peacekeepers and foreign mediators.

14.   Ethnic Albanian leaders in the southern Serbian province have refused to attend talks with Serb officials in Pristina, saying they want foreign mediators present at any such talks.

15.   European Union and other foreign mediators met Monday with Tudjman, urging him to have the law amended.

16.   Foreign mediators have demanded that Karadzic at least be removed from all office, in accord with the Dayton agreement.

17.   Foreign mediators have demanded that Karadzic at least be removed from office, in accord with the Dayton agreement.

18.   Foreign mediators see talks Wednesday between Mobutu and rebel leader Laurent Kabila as a last chance to avoid a final bloody battle.

19.   For the rebels, the risk of exhausting the patience of foreign mediators was an even greater threat than NATO attack, warned European Union envoy Wolfgang Petritsch.

20.   Foreign mediators gave both sides two weeks to reach an agreement, or face military consequences.