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Trade Minister Welshman Ncube was appointed to the diamonds committee set up to respond to concerns by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme which barred diamonds from Marange from being traded on the open market.

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Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction legislator Abednico Bhebhe said Arthur Mutambara’s leadership style was authoritative and reminiscent of President Robert Mugabe.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Stan Mudenge rapped Western governments for supporting the Movement for Democratic Change’s lawlessness and hooliganism at the expense of the government’s efforts to uphold the rule of law.

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A Nigerian diplomat told United States embassy officials in Abuja that President Robert Mugabe was brutally repressive and had at one time dispatched troops to violently quell such minor unrest as student strikes.

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Minister of Regional Trade and International Cooperation Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga and Industry and Trade Minister Welshman Ncube, both from the Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, were more vocal about the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe than Zimbabwe African National Union negotiator Patrick Chinamasa who was also Minister of Justice.

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The Minister of Water Development Sam Sipepa Nkomo, in a rare praise for Arthur Mutambara, leader of the smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, said the deputy Prime Minister had been a positive force in cabinet and had been caucusing with MDC-T ministers.

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Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction chief negotiator Welshman Ncube made it to the cabinet of the inclusive government when he was appointed Minister of Industry and Commerce joining his deputy Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga.

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The Southern African Development Community set the timetable for the formation of the inclusive government which was adhered to although opposition parties from Zimbabwe had claimed that they had not agreed to outstanding issues.

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Zimbabwe was in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maintain law and order because the international community had failed to do its job so it had to compensate Zimbabwe for its intervention.

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Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said President Robert Mugabe was prepared to step down any time once the land issue had been resolved but he would take the country over the cliff if he was pushed too hard.

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