Zimbabwe Parties Break Off Impasse Talks: Reality Check
Harare, Zimbabwe, 26 November 2009 I did say yesterday that the talks between ZANU PF and the two MDCs were on the verge of collapse and it now emerges that the negotiators have "suspended" the marathon talks (they started on Monday) and will only meet again on Saturday. The reason, officially, is that some of them have to travel outside Zimbabwe on government business. The negotiators say that all this time, they have been talking about the same issues: Gono, Tomana, pirate radio stations and sanctions. I wonder if anyone else sees the futility of this exercise. The MDC-Tsvangirai, especially, must make up its mind whether it is serious or not here. You see, they AGREED to include the issue of sanctions and "pirate radio stations" in the Global Political Agreement. They willingly signed off on that GPA. Yet we know, they know, everyone knows: they can not shut down radio stations based in democratic countries overseas. They can not compel the USA and the European U...