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Patasse offers mediation role

    NAIROBI

    Congo has denied reports that it accepted Central African Republic President Felix-Ange Patasse as mediator in the country’s conflict, news agencies said on Wednesday. Patasse told RFI he had been chosen to mediate between President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his foes, former president Pascal Lissouba and former prime minister Bernard Kolelas. Patasse said:
    “we have already taken practical measures to host on Central African soil the various delegations that might visit in accordance with a schedule that is to be agreed upon.” However, AFP quoted Congolese Communications Minister Francois Ibovi as saying his government had “not confided a mission to President Patasse for any round-table in Bangui.”

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