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Mugabe
illegitimate-Rwanda's Kagame
Zimbabwe
Metro
July 02, 2008
http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/07/02/mugabe-illegitimate-rwandas-kagame/
Paul Kagame,
Rwanda's president has questioned Mugabe 's legitimacy
and hinted that his country will not recognize the outcome of the
second run-off poll. He told the Financial Times that the head of
the Southern African Development Community election observer mission
had circulated reports at the summit about conditions before the
vote "indicating that just about everything went wrong".
Mr Kagame said: "Things
went wrong, I agree with that. With that background it is not even
possible to talk who is the winner.
"We are not short
of what people think about the crisis. What we are short of is people
to actually resolve the problem. I would agree with what some of
them are saying that there is a need to bring the sides together."
Robert Mugabe met Thabo
Mbeki, the South African president and regional mediator on the
crisis, on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Mr Mugabe later addressed a closed session of the AU, whose leaders
were split on how to respond to questions about his legitimacy after
last Friday's widely derided presidential run-off election
in which he was the only candidate.
On Sunday Mugabe
was sworn in for a fresh term as president following elections that
were condemned by all the three African missions that monitored
the polls and denounced as illegitimate by western powers.
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