In a statement issued to reporters on Tuesday in Guinea’s capital Conakry, Cherif reinstated the junta’s stance as given in a radio broadcast on Sunday.

"There are some issues which are not negotiable. One is President Camara's candidacy in new elections,” Cherif said in the statement, according to the AFP.

"We will also not discuss the break-up of the CNDD (the junta’s ruling committee),” he added.

This is thus bringing the political situation in Guinea to a deadlock.

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, who is mediating in Guinea's crisis, last week met with members of the junta and officials from the opposition coalition, which comprises political parties, trade unions and the civil society.

Campaore’s proposed peace deal allows junta’s leader, Camara, to remain in power and to be able to contest for an eventual presidential election.

The opposition bloc last week rejected this deal saying it ignored the plight of the masses. And now the junta said their leader must go to polls.

Further meetings are set to be held later this week between the Guinean parties and Compaore.

Camara came to power in a bloodless coup on December 23 last year after the death of Lansana Conte, who had ruled the country since 1984.

Government troops shot and killed hundreds of opposition protesters in a Conakry stadium on September 28 when they gathered to say no to Camara’s bid to run in a presidential election earlier slated for January 2010.

The international community unanimously condemned the junta for killing innocent civilians and called the mineral-rich country’s political forces for a dialogue under Campaore.