Citing a diplomat who requested anonymity, the news agency said the three mediators were the Gabonese and Congolese foreign ministers, Jean Ping and Rodolphe Adada, and Angolan Interior Minister Oswaldo van Dunen.
De Menezes, who was in Nigeria during the July 16 coup, went Tuesday to the Gabonese capital Libreville where he met with President Omar Bongo.
The negotiations in Sao Tome, led by Adada, were reportedly close to an agreement yesterday that will pave the way for De Menezes' return to the former Portuguese colony.
Lusa said the junta's negotiators met early yesterday afternoon with a South African delegation headed by South African Ambassador to Libreville Samuel Monaisa Moutghetit.
The eight-member team has been asked to help resolve issues raised by some of the putschists - former members of the feared Buffalo Battalion who fought as mercenaries against South Africa's former apartheid regime - who have been ostracised since returning home to Sao Tome.
The coup leaders, headed by Major Fernando Pereira, had asked for a South African delegation to take part directly in talks between the junta and the 30-strong international mediation team.
But it was agreed that the South African mission would discuss the issues of the former mercenaries on the sidelines of the negotiations, diplomats said. – Sapa-AFP.
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