VOA标准英语2010年-Zimbabwe Reconciliation Meeting Result

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Johannesburg   24 May 2010

In Zimbabwe, a meeting aimed at launching a process of national reconciliation¹ has been aborted² after chaos³ erupted over delegate accreditation⁴.

Organizers of the opening meeting of Zimbabwe's Organ for National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration⁵ decided⁶ to postpone⁷ the gathering⁸ indefinitely because of disruption by several-hundred uninvited delegates.

 Each of the three political parties in Zimbabwe's power-sharing government reportedly were to send 60 delegates to the meeting.  They were to discuss the reconciliation process and return to their home districts to inform their constituents⁹ of the procedures.

The power-sharing agreement that led to the creation of Zimbabwe's unity¹⁰ government last year calls for reconciliation as part of a series of steps leading to a new constitution and national elections.

The accord followed months of negotiations¹¹ after controversial and sometimes violent elections two years ago.

Under the accord, leaders of the two factions¹² of the former opposition¹³ Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, became prime minister and deputy-prime minister in the government of President Robert Mugabe.

The government-owned Sunday Mail newspaper reported nearly 500 supporters of Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party entered the hall and began singing revolutionary songs when asked to leave.

The spokesman for Mutambara's group, Edwin Mushoriwa, blamed ZANU-PF for the disruption.

"This was a well-planned, well-orchestrated program of action," he said. "And in the eyes or the interests of ZANU-PF they decided that probably it was to their best interests to disrupt the proceedings¹⁴."

A delegate from Mr. Tsvangirai's party, Ellen Manyere, also blamed ZANU-PF.

"ZANU-PF is not sincere and is not candid¹⁵ in this national healing process," she said. "And this will take a mammoth¹⁶ task for some of us and ZANU-PF to actually sit down in new forums¹⁷ and come up with something amicable¹⁸ for the benefit of the Zimbabwean nation."

The chairman of the meeting, Vice¹⁹ President John Nkomo of ZANU-PF, tried to calm the disruptive participants, but eventually adjourned²⁰ the meeting indefinitely.

Last year the first attempt to launch a conference on the new Zimbabwean constitution was disrupted in similar fashion.  It only convened²¹ after intervention²² by the leaders of the three parties.