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Zimbabwe: UN chief hits out at Mugabe over impasse

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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 19:00:05  Posted By: Gairk

Laying the blame for Zimbabwe's power-sharing impasse squarely at President Robert Mugabe's door, United Nations (UN) Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that Mugabe had disappointed the international community. The UN chief had been discussing Zimbabwe's crisis with other leaders and dispatched his senior adviser to Harare. Yesterday he said at a regional summit in the Philippines that Zimbabwe's crisis talks “have been taking too long”. “I sincerely hope that President Mugabe will no longer disappoint the international community,” Ban said. “He should meet the expectations of the international community.” The Southern African Development Community (SADC) troika which met in Harare this week has backed mediator Thabo Mbeki's report which is favourable to Mugabe's position in the power-sharing wrangle.

Movement for Democratic leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected Mugabe's efforts to cast the opposition as a junior partner in the proposed power-sharing government. Referring to a full, emergency SADC summit called for next week, possibly in SA, Ban said: “Now that the SADC has decided to convene their full summit meeting, I hope these leaders – considering their responsibility to see peace and stability maintained in their region – should take very decisive measures to help resolve this crisis.”

The SADC has confirmed Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement, signed last month, was doctored before the final signing and was therefore fraudulent. SADC executive secretary Tomaz Salomao confirmed the agreement was tampered with and said the issue would be resolved. The agreement of September 15 is different from the one initially signed on September 11 and this has caused alarm within opposition MDC and diplomatic circles. The MDC has described misleading alterations to the signed agreement suspected to have been made by Mugabe's Zanu PF as “forgery”. The MDC yesterday wrote to SADC headquarters in Botswana about the issue.

The letter was bound to cause a stir ahead of the volatile SADC summit. While the MDC approached SADC to highlight its concerns, Mugabe yesterday held an emergency politburo meeting of his Zanu PF party to review the outcome of the meeting of the SADC troika of the organ on politics, defence and security held in Harare on Monday. The meeting tried to resolve the deadlock on the allocation of ministries but failed. It then decided that an SADC summit must be convened to deal with the issue urgently. Ban said yesterday African leaders must take “decisive” action to end the stalemate which has been continuing amid hunger and disease afflicting the country. The SADC summit is likely to be explosive because of sharp differences between Mugabe and Tsvangirai. Tensions are rapidly rising because of accusations and counteraccusations of violating the agreement through acts of deceit and sometimes hostile rhetoric.

Source: ZWNEWS – 30 October 2008
From Business Day (SA), 30 October
Harare Correspondent

Source: http://www.zwnews.com