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Mediation team leaves meeting tight-lipped

The Standard "The headache of fine-tuning the function of the office of prime minister and the shape of a power-sharing Cabinet slowed down mediation talks even as local and international pressure mounted.
But it was apparent that crossing the hurdle of the prime minister’s position was proving a harder task than it had sounded a day earlier, when lead mediator Dr Kofi Annan was quoted saying: 'I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.'"

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