1.   Egypt and Ethiopia had launched separate mediation bids in the conflict without success.

2.   European Affairs Minister Michel Barnier was referring to separate mediation bids by the United Nations, the United States and Britain.

3.   Greece and Iran launched their mediation bid last month.

4.   Greece and Iran launched a Balkan mediation bid last month.

5.   Leading the mediation bid was Ashraf Rafi Ahmedzai, a senior aide to Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan.

6.   That was the same problem that scuttled a mediation bid two weeks before the April vote.

7.   The same problem scuttled a mediation bid two weeks before the April vote.

8.   The two countries have said they welcome mediation bids by Egypt and Ethiopia, with whom they have good relations.

9.   Ghana, which currently chairs ECOWAS, began a mediation bid in October last year.

10.   He was speaking as he returned to Sanaa, for a second visit in his mediation bid after first holding talks in the Yemeni capital on Thursday.