SADC sidelines Botswana's position on Mugabe

Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have sidelined Botswana's request to have the government of Robert Mugabe suspended from the organisation's meetings and called instead for talks, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Phandu Skelemani has said.

As it turns out, only Tanzania agreed with Botswana; and even then, only on the issue of negotiations being conducted on the basis of the parties being equals. 

In an interview with Mmegi yesterday, Skelemani said Botswana had presented her position to the 10th Meeting of SADC's Organ on Politics, Defence and Security in Durban, South Africa last week, which was to have Zimbabwe suspended from SADC structure meetings.

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