Sentence examples for mediation efforts of from inspiring English sources

The best hope for a peaceful, democratic outcome to Venezuela's political crisis may now rest in the mediation efforts of Jimmy Carter.

For his mediation efforts of 1940, he was in 1947 dismissed from his post as minister of state, fined 20,000 guilders, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

"Any action adopted at the Security Council should be extremely prudent and responsible and helpful to the mediation efforts of the secretary general," said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Liu Jianchao.

In the run-up to the meeting, she spurned the mediation efforts of Herman Van Rompuy, who is the president of the European Council, where national E.U. governments meet, and who had offered to visit Berlin.

He even dismissed as foreign interference the mediation efforts of the United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the senior Algerian diplomat who visited Damascus on Dec. 24, warning of national disintegration if the two sides did not negotiate a solution.

Administration officials are trying to remind both sides that the incoming Bush administration will have a lot to tackle, and that the close, sometimes nearly daily mediation efforts of the Clinton years are likely to become a thing of the past.

And third, despite the sorry state of mediation efforts to date – both within west Africa and beyond – savvy diplomacy is needed now more than ever.

The United States and its allies supported sanctions as a way of getting President Robert Mugabe to take seriously mediation efforts to bring the opposition into the government.

The US decision came on the one-month anniversary of the coup and at a time when international mediation efforts to reinstate Zelaya are deadlocked.

First, if the UN or NATO are willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a military intervention, they should be willing to invest 10percentt of the aggregate military budget for serious mediation efforts, part of which could fund training for future mediators.

Mbeki's successor, Jacob Zuma, is however broadly seen as less sympathetic to Mugabe and more neutral in his mediation efforts ahead of elections expected next year.