He had tried to see them in an effort to prepare the ground for the proposed mediation mission.

His first mediation mission last month unraveled in a surge of bloodshed and mutual recriminations.

I spoke at length with Desmond Tutu at the start of the crisis, during his mediation mission.

We will fully support the African mediation and, of course, as the Council said, the Commission is available for a mediation mission.

"Since I started this," he said of his mediation mission, "I have been responsible for quite a large number of cease-fires.

The Foreign Minister, Tritan Shehu, said that the timing was not right for the mediation mission.

This normally secure city is used by the United Nations, foreign diplomats and others as the main access point for relief, peacekeeping and mediation missions in the region.

His last mediation mission was to Somalia to help the Federal Transition Government reconcile with moderate elements of the Union of Islamic Courts.

The pullout from Palestinian-ruled territory around the West Bank city of Jenin overnight coincided with the start of a new United States mediation mission.

He led numerous mediation missions to conflict areas in Africa including Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Somalia, Sudan, Cote-d' Ivoire.

When the United Nations Secretary General authorized a mediation mission led by Cyrus R. Vance, the former Secretary of State, the Administration said it would also support that effort.

The whole sorry show, which did nothing for the Bosnians, failed to satisfy Congress and irritated the Europeans, was halted only by Jimmy Carter's mediation mission, which produced the current cease-fire.

During 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov and Boris Fyodorov were in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on a mediation mission.

The Fifth Fleet, under the command of the Bothan Admiral Nek Bwau'tu, had blockaded the Choke because of an attempted Jedi mediation mission to the Utegetu Nebula.

Officials in Washington interpreted the new orders as a possibly conciliatory move by Iraq in advance of a mediation mission to the Middle East by the United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar.

Meanwhile Austria's former Chancellor, Franz Vranitzky, is conducting an urgent political mediation mission for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the group whose recommendations helped resolve the recent political showdown in Serbia.

Mario Giro participated in several mediation missions, in Mozambique, Algeria, Burundi, Kosovo, Liberia, Guinea, Niger, Togo, Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Colombia, and Uganda.

But Truman could not perceive China's civil war apart from the Soviet-American Cold War, and he fatally flawed General Marshall's mediation mission in 1946 by continuing military aid to the GMD, despite its intransigence in negotiations with the CCP.

The resolution also urges Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai to start a dialogue in the interests of the people of Zimbabwe, to put in place a government of national unity, and to support the mediation mission undertaken by the SADC.

In 1371 Vladislaus led an armed expedition against the Crown of Bohemia (this assault caused a terrible devastation of Moravia); however, next year Vladislaus was the head of a mediation mission to resolve dispute between the Emperor (also Bohemian King) Charles IV and King Louis I.