Mugabe must go - Clinton
2009-05-20 22:09
Special Report
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said "I let the old man be the president... just for the sake of the country."
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says he doesn't expect the US sanctions on his country to be lifted soon.
Washington - The departure of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe would be in "the best interests of everyone", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview distributed here on Wednesday.
Clinton also told South African state television that the United States would not resume aid to the Zimbabwean government as long as it could not be sure it would reach the people concerned.
"I think that would be in the best interests of everyone," Clinton told her interviewer who asked "would you like to see President Mugabe go first before you can come in"?
The interview was conducted on Tuesday, but distributed by the State Department on Wednesday.
- AFP