21.   Archbishop Jose Dimas Cedeno was called in to mediate the talks.

22.   Arutyunian said he heard of the delay in a letter Sunday from the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg, France-based body mediating the talks.

23.   As Russian and Chechen negotiators traded accusations, even the usually cautious European diplomat mediating the talks gave a gloomy outlook for peace.

24.   Baker, a former U.S. secretary of state, is the U.N. envoy mediating the talks.

25.   Both nations are part of the six-nation Contact Group that is mediating peace talks between Yugoslavia and the ethnic Albanians who comprise the majority in Kosovo province.

26.   Bosnian Serbs loyal to the Sarajevo government Tuesday asked the United Nations to help mediate talks with moderate Serbs in Banja Luka, a stronghold of Serb militarism.

27.   Both sides urged Ukraine, their northern neighbor, to mediate the talks.

28.   Britain has offered to mediate the talks if both sides request its help.

29.   Chavez insists that contacts with the guerrillas were meant to mediate peace talks and were endorsed by Colombia.

30.   Chiluba, who had been mediating ongoing talks, opposes a change of venue, a Zambian official said Monday on condition of anonymity.