1.   An impartial foreign mediator is needed.

2.   But others suspect that he was completely out-foxed by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who has had long practice in fooling well-intentioned foreign mediators.

3.   Foreign mediators would be given wide-ranging powers as they prepared Kosovo for elections.

4.   The government said any talks must be direct, and denied a Basque newspaper report that the rebels had proposed a foreign mediator.

5.   The rebels are not being included, but both Albanian and foreign mediators are in contact with them because the peace plan will involve disarming the rebels.

6.   Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said he and his colleagues decided that if Arafat was not allowed to meet foreign mediators, then neither would other Palestinian officials.

7.   Also, a Serbian government delegation was in Pristina waiting in vain for the Albanian delegation to show up for talks without foreign mediators.

8.   Arafat is pushing for an international peacekeeping force and additional foreign mediators in the Middle East, proposals the Israelis and their American allies oppose.

9.   But the offers, criticized by the West as insincere, have been rejected by ethnic Albanian leaders for excluding the possibility of foreign mediators.

10.   Buthelezi also reiterated his demand for foreign mediators to resolve the dispute over how much power the national government should have compared to provincial governments.