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By Staff Reporter

THE United States has called on China and India to join Western efforts to isolate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime and encourage his people to boot him out of power.

"The international community needs to continue to isolate him, to increase the isolation of his regime," the new US assistant secretary of state for African affairs Jendayi Fraser said in an interview.

She said Washington was working very closely with the Europeans to further isolate Mugabe and added: "I think China and others can come on board as well."

In July China, which maintains close ties with Harare, opposed discussion at the Security Council of a damning UN report into Zimbabwe's slum clearances, which left 700,000 Zimbabweans homeless and destitute and affected a further 2.4 million.

The Council was briefed on the report just as the 81-year-old Mugabe visited Beijing. Fraser specifically mentioned India, which also has good relations with Zimbabwe and rejected a British request this summer to boycott a Zimbabwean cricket team.

"We should consider consultations with others, the (UN) Security Council, the UN needs to be seized on this issue...so there can be a return of democracy (in Zimbabwe)," Fraser said - AP
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