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Civil society organisations which met in Harare soon after the announcement that the three major political parties in Zimbabwe had agreed on a memorandum of agreement setting the framework for negotiations, which had not yet been signed, called for a transitional government led by a neutral person and rejected a power-sharing arrangement.

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When the three key political parties, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change signed a memorandum of understanding to pave the way for negotiations before South African President Thabo Mbeki it appears the United States embassy’s greatest fear was that the MDC might be swallowed by ZANU-PF like it had done to the Zimbabwe African people’s Union, 20 years earlier.

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Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti said party leader Morgan Tsvangirai was weak and was listening to the wrong people, some of whom were tired of the present situation and favoured what for him was an unacceptable compromise.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki was unlikely to solve the Zimbabwe crisis because President Robert Mugabe regarded him as little more than a “boy” and was going to run circles around him, buying time to destroy the political opposition.

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The United States said it would only accept a Movement for Democratic Change-led government. A ZANU-PF-MDC agreement by itself was not enough.

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Several delegates to the G-8 meeting in Tokyo, a day before the presidential elections run-off in Zimbabwe, were angered at United Nations and European Union violations of the travel ban on President Robert Mugabe and his lieutenants but did not state who the culprits were.

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China and Russia vetoed a United States-sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution that would have imposed a comprehensive arms embargo on Zimbabwe and subjected 14 senior members of the Zimbabwean government most responsible for the campaign of violence against the political opposition to an international asset freeze and travel ban.

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The United States placed President Robert Mugabe top of the list of Zimbabweans that it wanted placed on the United Nations sanctions list because of their human rights abuses and seriously undermining democracy.

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Reserve Bank government Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that President Robert Mugabe was physically weak despite a strong public face.

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The United States piled pressure for military intervention in Zimbabwe, one week after the African Union had failed to condemn the election of President Robert Mugabe, arguing that the reasons that were being put forward by two key members, Russia and China, were invalid.

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