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Mbeki says will encourage Zimbabwe leaders to talk

JOHANNESBURG
Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:20pm EDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday that South Africa would encourage President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to meet to discuss Zimbabwe's political crisis after the opposition leader pulled out of a June 27 presidential run-off vote.

"From our point of view it is still necessary that the political leadership of Zimbabwe should get together and find a solution to the challenges that face Zimbabwe," Mbeki told South African public broadcaster SABC.

"I would hope that that leadership would be open to a process which would result in them coming to some agreement about what happens to their country. And that most certainly is what we would try to encourage".

(Reporting by Marius Bosch)


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