The chief organizer of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, who has threatened to quit his post, made peace with the Italian government on Tuesday to raise the possibility he may back off from resigning.

Valentino Castellani, president of the games' organizing committee (TOROC), met with the government's Olympic supervisor, Culture Minister and International Olympic Committee member Mario Pescante, to work out a new "command structure".

Castellani said last week that increased powers for Pescante amounted to "a lack of faith" in his work and blamed that his role was no clear.

But on Tuesday he agreed a new strategy document with Pescante, which will be submitted to local and regional political leaders and to Italy's National Olympic Committee (CONI).

"I am satisfied, because we have formulated a clear and agreed hypothesis of the command roles in TOROC," Castellani said in a statement.

"Without providing in opportune anticipations, I can say that the text responds in a constructive way to the problems that we have to solve.

"It will be Mr. Pescante's role to submit the text to the mayor of Torino, to the president of the province, to the president of the region and the president of CONI," he added.

Castellani, a former mayor of Turin, had said he would offer his resignation at the next TOROC board meeting on November 24. Whether he carries out that threat or not now depends on how the other parties to the document react to his agreement with Pescante.

Pescante is part of Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, which also controls the Piedmont region but not the city council in Turin.

(Xinhua News Agency November 10, 2004)