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Original Post Date: 2010-04-06 Time: 18:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Tichaona Sibanda
A 25-page report detailing the state of the Global Political Agreement talks was last week handed over to the party principals who are reportedly reviewing its contents.
The same report is to be presented to the mediator, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, who will in turn forward it to the Southern African Development Community’s special organ on Politics, Security and Defence, also known as the Troika.
The Troika is chaired by Mozambican President Armando Guebuza who is expected to convene a special summit to deal with the remaining and most contentious issues in the GPA, according to a source.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman James Maridadi confimed the MDC leader received the report last week. ‘He’s going through the report and once he’s finished I’m sure there will be a meeting of the principals soon to discuss the contents of the document,’ Mardiadi said.
Although all sides to the talks have remained tight-lipped, SW Radio Africa is reliably informed that efforts by Zuma to bridge some of the gaps between ZANU PF and the MDC failed, in spite of his intensive attempt in March to resolve the key disputes.
More than a year after the signing of the GPA Robert Mugabe has continued to delay the implementation of many of the statutes agreed upon by the parties. Among the outstanding issues is the continued delay in swearing in the deputy Minister of Agriculture designate Roy Bennett. Meanwhile ZANU PF continues to demand that the MDC bring to an end what they have termed illegal western sanctions on Mugabe and about 200 senior party members.
Political analyst Munjonzi Mutandiri told us he didn’t think the report on the talks contained anything new.
‘The bottom line from these talks is that ZANU PF and the MDC are still worlds apart. These people have been talking about what was agreed during the talks to form an inclusive government–things that were not implemented. The real issue here is the lack of implementation by Mugabe and his ZANU PF party,’ Mutandiri said.
Unconfirmed reports said the negotiators may have finally agreed on a formula for the appointment of provincial governors and a land audit.
When the unity government agreement was signed most of the issues were agreed in principle but there was little discussion on how they were actually going to be implemented. ‘Part of the talks in the last few weeks looked at how the remaining issues, agreed upon by the negotiators, would be implemented. For instance the three parties agreed that there must be a land audit but failed to agree on how the land audit would be carried out. These are some of the issues the negotiators were looking at. Their recommendations are contained in the report,’ a source added.
During his mediation trip to Harare in March there were reports suggesting Zuma had won concessions from Mugabe to either let Gono or Tomana to step down as part of the ‘package of measures’ he had assembled. But Mugabe has publicly denied there was such a deal. He told his central committee members that ZANU PF still insists that it will not compromise in the current talks over outstanding GPA issues, until targeted sanctions imposed by the West were removed. As usual Mugabe is ignoring the fact that no one is asking him to compromise, but merely to implement what he had signed up to do.
There was a brief glimmer of hope when Zuma visited Harare in March and announced at the end of his two-day stay that the three principals had agreed to a ‘package of measures’ to help rescue the fragile unity government.
The South African President even told journalists the parties had agreed the measures would be implemented concurrently, as per the decision of the SADC troika in Maputo in November 2009.
Zuma’s spokesman, Vincent Magwenya, on Monday said the South African facilitation team would head back to Zimbabwe on Wednesday to pick up the report and discuss the remaining issues. The team will then fly back to Pretoria to discuss the report with Zuma and update him on the situation.
Original date published: 6 April 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201004061132.html?viewall=1