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Power-sharing 'impossible' with Mugabe in place: Britain
AFP - Tuesday, December 23
LONDON (AFP) - - Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition has been made "impossible" by Mugabe, who must now step down, Britain's Africa minister said Monday.
Lord Mark Malloch Brown was asked whether the deal was effectively dead after the top US envoy for Africa Jendayi Frazer said she had lost confidence in the deal being a success with Mugabe in power.
He said he feared it was and added: "Power-sharing isn't dead but Mugabe has become an absolute impossible obstacle to achieving it.
"He's so distrusted by all sides that I think the Americans are absolutely right, he's going to have to step aside".
Malloch Brown also renewed British calls for Mugabe to step down.
"If President Mugabe was to come to the UK and US or other third parties, his African neighbours, and say 'I'll go if I can be offered a quiet retirement', I suspect people would look at what was possible," he said.
"Either his people around him or political allies or people he's in contact with in neighbouring countries really have to go to him in one of those famous political delegations and say 'you've got to go'".
Frazer said Sunday Mugabe was "completely discredited" after the veteran leader said last week that Zimbabwe "is mine" and that he would never quit.
Talks over implementing a deal which would have left Mugabe as president and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change prime minister have stalled over control of key ministries.
Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF and Tsvangirai's opposition Movement for Democratic Change have failed to implement a September power-sharing deal in which Mugabe would remain president while Tsvangirai would become prime minister.
The March elections saw ZANU-PF lose its majority in parliament for the first time since independence in 1980.
Tsvangirai defeated Mugabe in the first-round presidential vote, but pulled out of a June run-off, accusing the regime of violence against his supporters.
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