It was the first official mediator in the UN's history.

But in a two-hour meeting on Sunday night with the legislators four commanders refused to accept the documents, saying that the legislators were not official mediators.

Negotiations between Nicaraguan Government and guerrilla representatives were suspended today by the official mediator, who said the two sides remained too far apart to have meaningful talks.

Direct contacts between an official mediator and the rebel group, Al Faran, resumed today for the second straight day, Indian security officials said, but they remained inconclusive.

He was the village's first postmaster, using his cottage as the post office, a shoemaker, and acted as an official mediator between two people in the village with a quarrel.

He also censured Mbeki for failing in his role as the Southern African Development Community's official mediator to heed the churches' call for a peace-keeping force.

The appointment of the of the Communist who is Speaker of Parliament, Nilda Iotti, as an official mediator in late March removed a longstanding taboo.

The parliamentary, according to the Inspector General's decision, also exceeded the duties specified in the authorization given to her by the Colombian government as an official mediator for the humanitarian exchange.

In May 1948, Estelle's husband Folke Bernadotte was appointed the United Nations' mediator in Palestine, the first official mediator in UN history.

The Swedes were the official mediators, but it was through the private efforts of Boufflers and William Bentinck, the Earl of Portland that the major issues were resolved.

On 27 May 1950, Dixon was invited by the United Nations to act as their official mediator between the governments of India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

The new monitoring plan was worked out over several weeks between the official mediators in the former Yugoslavia, Lord Owen of Britain and Thorvald Stoltenberg of Norway, and Mr. Milosevic.

Opposing Foreign Observers The Government delegation, led by Justice Minister Oscar Santamaria, had strongly opposed the presence of any foreign observers at the talks and resisted making Salvadoran bishops the official mediators.

Although the precise terms of the agreement remained undisclosed - pending its ratification by the union's membership and the company's board of directors - William Usery, the official mediator, described it as fair, honourable and "a victory for collective bargaining".

The official mediator in the negotiations, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the Roman Catholic Primate of Nicaragua, called on both sides to "reflect" and described the second round of talks here as "a battle we did not win."

Negotiations on a cease-fire resumed on Thursday after a two-week hiatus, but were suspended on Friday by the official mediator, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, who said the two sides remained too far apart to have meaningful talks.

The two rebel leaders, Alfonso Robelo and Maria Azucena Ferrey, said Monday that they would personally hand over the proposal today in the capital, Managua, to Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the official mediator between the Sandinista Government and the contra rebels.