No plan for MDC-Mbeki talks
09/04/2008 10:23  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - There are no immediate plans for a meeting between President Thabo Mbeki and the leader of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, the presidency said on Wednesday.

"I know nothing about it," presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga replied when asked whether a meeting between the two was on the cards.

Business Day reported on Wednesday that MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti had said Tsvangirai was expected to meet Mbeki "soon" over the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission's failure to release the results of the country's recent presidential election.

It also quoted sources as saying Tsvangirai and Mbeki communicated about the election crisis telephonically last week

However, Ratshitanga pointed out that, on Wednesday, Mbeki was in India, leading a South African delegation at the heads and State and Government session of the inaugural Africa-India Partnership Summit in New Delhi.

"I have seen nothing of the sort in the diary," he said of any planned meeting between Mbeki and Tsvangirai.

The MDC is claiming that the delay in releasing the results is a ploy by President Robert Mugabe to rig the election, which Tsvangirai maintains he has won.

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