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Mugabe refused talks - opposition

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has refused to meet the leader of the main opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, to discuss the on-going violence ahead of parliamentary elections this weekend, Tsvangirai told national television on Tuesday.

    “I wrote a letter to President Mugabe telling him the situation is not in the best interest of the country. I have received no response,” Tsvangirai said. “He has not given me an audience. So it is up to him now.” He did not say when he wrote the letter.

    It was Tsvangirai’s first interview on the state-owned ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) since the election campaign began.

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