21.   President Rexhep Meidani, who broke off a trip to Greece, was believed trying to mediate the crisis.

22.   South Africa tried to mediate the crisis in the neighboring mountain kingdom.

23.   The delegation leader, Istvan Gyarmati of Hungary, said the group did not plan to mediate the crisis, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.

24.   The Organization for African Unity named Nyerere to mediate the crisis even before the coup, and he has held a series of inconclusive talks since then.

25.   The presence of the tanks had been seen as a major stumbling blocks to efforts by President Rexhap Meidani and international officials to mediate the crisis.

26.   Two years ago, Alexy cut short a trip abroad and returned home to help mediate the crisis that erupted after President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Russian parliament.

27.   When Yeltsin arrived, he claimed Russia had persuaded U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to go to Baghdad to personally mediate the crisis.

28.   A team of four African leaders have agreed to mediate the crisis in the country.

29.   Commonwealth countries have tried to mediate the crisis and the United States made recent attempts to bring the two together.

30.   Egypt and Ethiopia have been helping Paris mediate the crisis which flared in December between Asmara and Sanaa over the Hanish archipelago at the mouth of the Red Sea.