Ministers on a three-day retreat hammered out the plan which is meant to yield a new constitution by next year.
Restrictions on foreign media are due to be lifted and human rights restored.
Correspondents at the talks say there is some scepticism that such ambitious targets can be met in such a short space of time.
After Zimbabwe quit the Commonwealth in 2003, the EU and US imposed travel bans on Mr Mugabe and his circle.
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
was sworn in as prime minister in February 2009, following months of
wrangling over a power-sharing agreement originally signed with Mr
Mugabe in September 2008.
Meeting and bonding
Five priorities have been set out in the plan agreed in the resort town
of Victoria Falls: restoring human rights, addressing security
concerns, stabilising the economy, building infrastructure and
re-engaging the international community.
Relaxation of the media regulations means that independent local and international media should be allowed to operate freely.
Broad consultations are due to be be held on the new constitution ahead of a stakeholders’ conference three months from now.
Patrick Chinamasa, the justice minister and an MP from Mr Mugabe’s
Zanu-PF party, said his country wanted normal relations with the West.
"We have committed ourselves to normalising relations between Zimbabwe
and those countries which disengaged their relationship and this is
primarily the EU, the United Kingdom, the United States and the white
Commonwealth countries," he said.
"So we have now said that we are going to re-engage them. A core team
of ministers has been set up to expiate the re-engagement."
Eric Matinenga, the constitutional affairs minister and an MP from Mr
Tsvangirai’s MDC, said broad consultations would be held on the new
constitution.
"We are already starting to engage the various groups and the
population to make sure that the constitution is acceptable to the
people of Zimbabwe," he said.
Former political rivals may have faced each other and bonded,
Zimbabwean journalist Brian Hungwe reports from Victoria Falls, but the
big task now is implementation.
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