The United States expressed its hope on Wednesday that the political parties in Zimbabwe, including the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - the Patriotic Front Party (ZANU-PF), could reach a political settlement over the presidential dispute.
"I think it's our hope that there can be a political settlement that involves discussions among all the parties, including the ZANU-PF," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at the daily press briefing.
"Certainly we would hope that there would be people in the ZANU-PF who understood the situation and who were, as I said the other day, Zimbabwean patriots first and members of the ZANU-PF second, who would be interested in working for the good of the country and achieving a political resolution," Casey said.
However, Casey did not specify the possible negotiations between the ruling party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The United States has warned Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe not to go ahead with the presidential run-off vote on June 27 and not to declare himself as re-elected president.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced on Sunday that he had withdrawn from the country's scheduled presidential run-off on June 27. Tsvangirai cited mounting violence and intimidation against his party as major reasons for him to quit the run-off.
Source:Xinhua
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