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Mugabe, Tsvangirai to meet weekend for crisis talks : Official Print
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 06:08
mugabe_morgan_greatingsAPA-Harare (Zimbabwe) The secretary general of a splinter faction of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change said Wednesday that leaders of the three main political parties are due to meet by the end of the week in crisis talks to resolve problems threatening the country's fragile power-sharing government.

Welshman Ncube, who is the second-in-command in the smaller MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara, said leaders of the two MDC formations and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF had agreed to address the causes of the current impasse in which the MDC wing headed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai decided to boycott cabinet meetings.
Tsvangirai's MDC announced last Friday that it was suspending cooperation with ZANU PF over what it said was lack of seriousness by Mugabe's party to implementing commitments it made in a power-sharing agreement signed last year.
Tsvangirai left the country on Monday at the start of a diplomatic offensive to garner support of southern African leaders in his bid to pressure Mugabe to honour terms of the agreement which led to the formation of a unity government in February.
"I hope that in the next two to three days there will be a solution," Ncube told business executives in the capital Harare on Wednesday.
The MDC boycott has sparked the country's biggest political crisis since the formation of a new administration.

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