Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said here on Wednesday that international military action against Zimbabwe was unlikely.
"I don't think that the international community will move in the first instance or quickly or necessarily at all to military intervention in Zimbabwe," he told reporters.
"We've been arguing for some time and we repeat the argument that the primary responsibility here has to fall upon Zimbabwe's neighbors - the Southern African Development Community states," he said.
"And I don't hold out, frankly, any realistic prospect that the Security Council would move to an enforcement action."
Smith on Tuesday night directed Australia's representative to the United Nations, Robert Hill, to ask the Security Council for a full and open debate on Zimbabwe.
If peacekeepers were to be sent into Zimbabwe, they should come from African nations, Smith said.
"If there is to be a peacekeeping force in Zimbabwe, then logically and necessarily in the first instance that would have to come from the African Union and Southern African Development community states," he said.
Source:Xinhua
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