Mbeki meets Mugabe in Zimbabwe

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HARARE (AFP) — South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.

Mbeki had a brief discussion with Mugabe, whose re-election last month has been rejected by the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), an AFP correspondent saw.

The South African leader and Mugabe were then joined by Arthur Mutambara, head of the dissident MDC faction, its secretary-general Welshman Ncube and the latter's deputy Priscilla Misihairibwi-Mushonga.

Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, has said he would sit down with the opposition if Tsvangirai recognised him...