51.   Russia, the United States and France are trying to mediate the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly ethnic Armenian province inside Azerbaijan.

52.   Sandor Meszaros, the head of the Grozny mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, went to Argun to mediate the conflict.

53.   Sihanouk denied a recent appeal from business and political leaders to intervene and mediate the conflict between the two prime ministers.

54.   The church has taken an active role in mediating the conflict.

55.   The foreign minister said he had no news to report on efforts by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon of neighboring Djibouti and a senior U.S. official to mediate the conflict.

56.   The Djibouti-based Intergovernmental Authority on Development is attempting to mediate the conflict.

57.   The government made the same demand on Tuesday, but changed its mind Wednesday after pressure from former Botswana President Ketumile Masire, who is mediating the conflict.

58.   The IMF aid was tentatively approved under his predecessor, Yevgeny Primakov, and the Yugoslavia conflict was mediated mostly by another ex-premier, Viktor Chernomyrdin.

59.   The leaders of two warring Kurdish factions in northern Iraq have asked Iran to help mediate their conflict, an Iranian newspaper reported Sunday.

60.   The management has petitioned the labor department to mediate the conflict.