Bush expresses concern about Zimbabwe

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By Staff Reporter

UNITED States President George W Bush has voiced concern about the situation in Zimbabwe after meeting South African leader Thabo Mbeki at the White House on Wednesday.

Bush said: "I brought up Zimbabwe. We're concerned about a leadership that does not adhere to democratic principles, and obviously concerned about a country that was able to, for example, feed ourselves (sic) now has to import food as an example of the consequence of not adhering to democratic principles."

Bush said Mbeki "gave me a briefing, for example, of different ways that the people are trying to reconcile their differences of opinion within Zimbabwe, but it's a problem, yes".

Mbeki said that "the critical challenge, as I'm sure you are aware, is to assist people of Zimbabwe to overcome their political problems, their economic problems, problems of shortages because of the drought.

"So, what is really critically important is to see in what ways we can support the opposition party, the ruling party in Zimbabwe, to overcome the problems."

Bush has been critical of the Robert Mugabe regime and has adopted economic sanctions.

US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said in April the country's legislative elections were neither free nor fair. She describes the Zimbabwe regime as an "outpost of tyrrany".
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