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EU suspends aid talks

    JOHANNESBURG

    The European Union (EU) announced on Thursday that it was suspending talks with President Robert Mugabe’s government over the release of about US $32 million in budgetary support, pending the outcome of discussions between the government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on providing aid to the country’s battered economy, media reports said.

    “Talks on the EU support would only resume after the government had reached an agreement with the IMF on outstanding issues,” the reports quoted the EU’s ambassador to Zimbabwe, Asger Pillergaarde as saying. An IMF team is currently holding talks with the Zimbabwean government, partly over allegations the government lied about its expenditure on involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conflict allowing approval of a US $193 million standby credit facility.

    Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports said the IMF-government talks have deadlocked on key expenditure issues.

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