Mugabe rival calls for negotiations to end crisis
June 25th 2008 15:16
Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe's opposition leader left the Dutch Embassy Wednesday for the first time since taking refuge there over the weekend and called on African leaders to assist in negotiating a solution to his country's political crisis.
Morgan Tsvangirai said the African Union, backed by the United Nations, should lead a transitional process in Zimbabwe following disputed elections and a wave of political violence.
Tsvangirai told a press conference: "I am asking the AU and SADC (Southern African Development Community) to lead an expanded initiative supported by the U.N. to manage what I will call a transitional process."
The opposition leader said Friday's presidential election would be a sham.
While he was prepared to negotiate with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF before Friday, his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would "not have anything to do" with a government that emerged from the vote.
Tsvangirai spoke as pressure mounted on Mugabe from both inside and outside Africa to call off Friday's vote, which follows presidential and parliamentary elections on March 29 won by the MDC.
Source: msnbc.com
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