Dakar - Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade has rejected any further talks with the country's opposition, in an interview published by the pro-government daily Le Soleil on Monday.
Wade won a second term as president in February 2007 elections which the opposition claims were marred by fraud.
"I will have no dialogue with opponents who will not recognise my legitimacy," Wade told the paper.
"It is now formal. For me, it's over! I have closed this chapter," Wade added, little more than two months after accepting a request from the African Meeting for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO), a non-governmental body based in the Senegalese capital, to meet opposition leaders.
Elected in 2000 for a term of seven years, Wade was re-elected on February 25, 2007 in the first round of voting, with 55.90 percent of the vote, for a second term of five years.
The main opposition parties, in a coalition grouping called the Front for an Upright Senegal, refused to recognise that victory, and boycotted the June 2007 legislative elections and the senate elections of August 2007 in protest.
Since then, various opposition and non-governmental organisations have called for a national conference on political governance.
"The national conference does not interest me," Wade told Le Soleil.
"Let them do what they want, it doesn't bother me, so long as they respect law and order. On that, I am intransigent," he said. - Sapa-AFP