Mbeki: Final Zimbabwe deal possible this weekend
Thabo Mbeki says Zimbabwe's rival leaders could conclude a power-sharing deal at this weekend's regional summit.
Saturday, 16.08.2008.
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Thabo Mbeki says Zimbabwe's rival leaders could conclude a power-sharing deal at this weekend's regional summit. "This summit affords us the possibility to assist the Zimbabwean parties to finalise their negotiations so that together they can engage the work to achieve national healing and reconciliation," the Soth African president said, addressing the summit in Johannesburg. Mbeki: Final Zimbabwe deal possible this weekend Finalising negotiations would allow the country to "attend to the matter of reconstruction and development of Zimbabwe and in this way extricate the masses of the people from the dire straits in which they find themselves," he added. "I'm certain that the millions of Zimbabweans, both inside and outside Zimbabwe, await with great expectations and high hopes a positive outcome from our deliberations," Mbeki said. Mbeki is the regionally appointed mediator for the crisis in Zimbabwe, which intensified after President Robert Mugabe's re-election in a June presidential run-off widely condemned as a sham. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted the poll despite finishing ahead of Mugabe in the March first round of the election, citing rising violence against his supporters. The political rivals were both in attendance at the summit. Zimbabwe's economy has been in meltdown, with the world's highest inflation rate officially put at 2.2 million percent and major food shortages.
Mbeki: Final Zimbabwe deal possible this weekend
Finalising negotiations would allow the country to "attend to the matter of reconstruction and development of Zimbabwe and in this way extricate the masses of the people from the dire straits in which they find themselves," he added."I'm certain that the millions of Zimbabweans, both inside and outside Zimbabwe, await with great expectations and high hopes a positive outcome from our deliberations," Mbeki said.
Mbeki is the regionally appointed mediator for the crisis in Zimbabwe, which intensified after President Robert Mugabe's re-election in a June presidential run-off widely condemned as a sham.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted the poll despite finishing ahead of Mugabe in the March first round of the election, citing rising violence against his supporters.
The political rivals were both in attendance at the summit.
Zimbabwe's economy has been in meltdown, with the world's highest inflation rate officially put at 2.2 million percent and major food shortages.
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