Kenya's political rivals resumed crisis talks today despite preparations for a meeting of east African foreign ministers which has angered opposition leaders.
The opposition has threatened more street protests if the government chairs tomorrowday's planned meeting of the regional body IGAD, which is headed by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) says Mr Kibaki's team rigged the December 27th elections and has insisted on external mediation.
But former UN chief Kofi Annan, who is mediating between the rivals, said there would be no mass action while talks continued.
Some ministers from the seven-nation bloc arrived in Nairobi today, Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said.
"If they government goes ahead and holds the IGAD meeting, we will protest peacefully. We will march, carry placards, show our messages," one opposition official said.
Kenyan police have banned all protests since the polls, and earlier demonstrations have triggered violence and looting.
What started as a dispute over President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has since laid bare divisions over land, wealth and power that date from colonial rule and have since been stoked by politicians.
More than a thousand people have been killed and around 300,000 displaced in one of Kenya's darkest moments since its independence from Britain 44 years ago.
The government has banned street protests, and earlier ones have led to looting, rioting and a bloody police crackdown.
Most of the deaths have come from cycles of tribal killings and police clashes with protesters.
Much of the worst violence has been in the western Rift Valley, where members of the Kalenjin tribe - who back opposition leader Raila Odinga - turned on Kikuyus from President Kibaki's tribe. Since then, Kikuyu gangs have launched a series of revenge attacks.