A meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC ) Organ on Politics, Defense and Security in Swaziland aimed at building pressure on Zimbabwe to call off the 27th presidential election run-off flopped on Wednesday after Angola, the chair, and South Africa, the mediator, boycotted the summit, local media has reported.
A government official, who is well-informed with the operations of SADC, was quoted by The Herald on Thursday as saying that Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki, the SADC-appointed mediator for Zimbabwe, did not attend the summit.
President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and King Mswati of Swaziland attended the meeting.
"It was a bilateral meeting between two countries, it can never be a troika meeting. Troika means three and the deputy chair cannot call a meeting when the chair is there. Their resolution has no force in respect to ASDC, let alone Zimbabwe. The two countries (Tanzania and Swaziland) are only expressing an obligation to the Western world," said the official.
Tanzania and Swaziland has called for the postponement of the presidential run-off.
Source:Xinhua
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