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abwe's ruling party is engaged in informal talks with the main
opposition aimed at finding a solution to the country's political
crisis, President Robert Mugabe was quoted as saying by state media
yesterday.
"There are informal talks with the MDC (Movement for Democratic
Change), but nothing is formal," said Mugabe, according to the
ZIANA news agency.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who along with South Africa's
Thabo Mbeki, last year brokered inter-party talks in Zimbabwe, held
talks in Harare yesterday with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and
Mugabe's party officials.
The formal talks between the MDC and Zimbabwe African National
Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) were deadlocked last year after an
agenda had been drafted and following the MDC's decision to legally
challenge Mugabe's victory in controversial polls.
In July church leaders launched efforts to persuade Mugabe and the
MDC to meet again to seek ways of pulling the southern African
country out of dire economic straits and months-long political
stalemate over the disputed presidential election of March
2002.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in September said only pre-negotiation
talks were under way. – Sapa-AFP.
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