Zim political crisis 'solved'
05/02/2008 21:09  - (SA)  

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Pretoria - Negotiations to address Zimbabwe's political crisis were no longer needed as it was only procedural issues that remained outstanding, SA's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday.

The parties have agreed to all "substantive matters" and it was an issue of procedure that remained outstanding, Pahad said during a regular media briefing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

"There are no longer any negotiations needed; it's now procedural, they have agreed to everything ... its now really procedure that the Zimbabweans themselves have to sort out," Pahad said.

He said President Thabo Mbeki would continue to mediate between the parties to solve the outstanding procedural issues.

Pahad was briefing reporters on a report Mbeki gave to Southern African Development (SADC) leaders on the fringes of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week.

Mbeki said that President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have completed negotiations on all substantive matters related to the political situation in the country.

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