The negotiations between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations have been adjourned to Monday and there is still no official statement on the progress of the talks.

MDC-M negotiator Welshman Ncube told SW Radio Africa on Wednesday that the next meeting will be held on Monday because Finance Minister and MDC-T negotiator Tendai Biti has travelled to Tunisia.

We could not reach the Finance Minister or the ZANU PF negotiators for comment.

The South African facilitation team that has been in Harare since Monday left on Wednesday after holding meetings with the rivals in government about the progress of the talks and to evaluate the areas in disagreement.

Ncube would not comment on the outcome of the meetings with the South Africans or the negotiations, which have been going on for more than a year. The MDC-M negotiator said he could only say progress has been made on ‘some issues’, but that there is no movement on ‘other issues’.

Meanwhile, Radio VOP said that the negotiations stalled on Tuesday after the ZANU PF negotiators refused to make any concessions, claiming that they were under strict instructions from their party ‘not to co-operate,’ until sanctions and foreign radio stations are removed.

On Tuesday, MDC Spokesperson Nelson Chamisa told SW Radio Africa his party is insisting on a conclusion of these talks, and that the parties either have to ‘agree to move forward or agree to disagree’. He said the South African facilitation has to either help break the impasse or pronounce the negotiations deadlocked, and that if there is disagreement, an electoral framework should therefore be put in place.

By SW radio