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Obasanjo to mediate

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Robert Mugabe says Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo has been asked to mediate between Zimbabwe and Britain over the land reform issue, the Zimbabwean state media reported on Wednesday.

    The state news agency ZIANA quoted Mugabe as saying that British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook had proposed that Obasanjo be asked to diffuse rising tension between the two countries.

    "He (Cook) had met with Mr Obasanjo and other presidents and asked Obasanjo to assist in the relations between us and Britain," ZIANA quoted Mugabe as saying.

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