President Frederick Chiluba of Zambia was the chief mediator for the talks.
America, its chief mediator for the past three decades, has formally taken time out.
Zambia's president, Frederick Chiluba, who has served as the chief mediator, said today that progress toward peace was urgent.
But Assistant Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery Jr., the Government's chief mediator, said today that talks would continue.
Backers of the secretive deal, which was 18 months in the making, praised Pope Francis for lending moral gravitas by serving as chief mediator.
The chief mediator of the hypoxic response is hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) and its oxygen-sensitive component HIF-1alpha.
As he gave the warring groups a copy of the draft Darfur agreement on Tuesday evening, Salim Ahmed Salim, the chief mediator, said: "This is decision time.
Last week Mugabe branded Zuma's chief mediator, Lindiwe Zulu, "some stupid, idiotic woman" and a "little street woman" after her failed attempt to force a postponement of elections.
The United Nations, for example, has never appointed a woman chief mediator in peace talks, and the number of women in peacekeeping missions is extraordinarily low.
Despite this, the spokesman for Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president, who was chosen as the chief mediator, said negotiations had not been abandoned.
A report produced by chief mediator Sudanese Lt. General Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon has been presented to the UN Security Council by Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary-General.
