HARARE, - THE Morgan Tsvangirai led Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC -T) on Monday said its mediators will join ZANU PF and the Aurthur
Mutambara (MDC- M) negotiators in South Africa for a meeting called by
Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president mediating in the
Zimbabwe crisis.
Nelson Chamisa, told Radio VOP that Tendai Biti, the chief negotiator
in the crisis, will lead the MDC T in the negotiations but would demand
that all the outstanding issues in the power-sharing agreement be
addressed.
"Our team of negotiators is going to South African tomorrow (Tuesday)
to represent the MDC T," he said. "They are mandated to state our very
compelling case. The understanding is that the meeting should resolve
all outstanding issues which have deadlocked the power-sharing
agreement. These outstanding issues should be tackled before the issue
of Amendment Number 19. There are well-known outstanding issues the
mediator and SADC are privy of and these need urgent attention and we
hope this meeting will once and for all deal with them," said Chamisa.
There were fears the MDC T could boycott the meeting after its national
executive council rejected the SADC resolution that Mugabe should
proceed and form a coalition government.
The Tuesday meeting is expected to deliberate on the draft Constitutional Amendment Number 19.
Zimbabwe’s talks, to form a coalition government, have remained stalled
due to disagreement in allocation of key ministries. MDC-T is insisting
in being given real power as opposed to being spectators while Mugabe
continues to wield power.
International observers have condenmed the current situation in
Zimbabwe as deplorable as hundreds continue to die from cholera and
hunger in the country, with the highest inflation in the world.
Inflation is estimated to be well above 230 million percent.
Radio VOP
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