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April 13th, 2008
Posted: 04:42 AM ET
LUSAKA, Zambia (CNN) — Southern African leaders who met to discuss Zimbabwe’s electoral stalemate ended their 12-hour summit Sunday with a weak declaration that asked the country to release the remaining voting results quickly and concluded that Zimbabwe is not in crisis. The one-day summit in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, was seen by many as a test of the Southern African Development Community’s willingness, capability and resolve to sort out the election fiasco. The 14-member group has failed in the past to condemn Mugabe for alleged electoral fraud and human rights abuses. On Sunday, the SADC summit did not come up with any concrete solution to the impasse. Instead, the group released a two-page report that said the elections were free, the current government is a legitimate one because all the results have not yet been counted, and that the group would send observers if a second round of elections was warranted. |
 
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