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    JOHANNESBURG

    European Union officials are to visit Zimbabwe to prepare the way for EU observers to monitor the forthcoming parliamentary election. The date for the election has still to be set, but the pre-election period has been marked by widespread violence and intimidation for which the two main parties have blamed each other.

    The decision was announced at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Azores which expressed concern about the breakdown of the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

    “We expect the negative trends can be stopped and reversed, that dialogue would be the most appropriate means for a solution, and that elections must take place in a free manner,” said Jaime Gama, foreign minister of Portugal whose country currently holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. He insisted that there was no joint EU strategy for the eventual evacuation of EU citizens from Zimbabwe.

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