UN Security Council condemns violence in Zimbabwe

The violence against the opposition had a "free and fair election" in
Zimbabwe made "impossible," says the statement adopted unanimously by
the UN Security Council. The Secretary General of the United Nations,
Ban Ki-moon, calls to postpone the runoff election for the presidency.

The UN Security Council has condemned the violence of the Government
of Zimbabwe against opposition supporters. The making of President
Robert Mugabe's government and the violence emanating obstruction of
opposition a free second round on Friday, "impossible," it said in a
Monday evening (local time) unanimously adopted declaration.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the authorities in Zimbabwe
to a shift in the runoff election for the presidency. "There was too
much violence, there was too much intimidation. An election under
these conditions would lack all legitimacy, "said Ban.Der election day
stay there, however, said Zimbabwe's UN Ambassador Boniface
Chidyausiku.
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"This would deepen the divisions in the country and only produce
results that can not be credible," Ban said, however. The Security
Council urged the government to "stop the violence to settle political
intimidation, to end the restrictions on freedom of assembly and
release detained politicians." The 15 states represented in the UN
Security Council adopted the declaration only after hours of hard
bargaining.

Ban Ki-moon: "There was too much intimidation,"

"Untrustworthy results"

Previously, at the insistence of South Africa was a bill has been
defused, in which it was said that the results of the first round on
29 March would be a basis to form a government in Zimbabwe, if it come
to any second ballot. In the first ballot was opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai received a majority of votes, according to official
figures, but missed the absolute majority.

Tsvangirai had withdrawn from runoff on Sunday. He justified this step
with the massive increase in violence against opposition supporters in
the country. Since the first round of the presidential election, 86
supporters of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had been
killed. Tsvangirai holds even for security reasons in the Dutch
embassy in Harare.

Tsvangirai: "declare null and void"

Was being held at the election on Friday, Zimbabwe's UN Ambassador
Chidyausiku said after the meeting of the UN Security Council. He had
taken note of the Declaration on the future of Zimbabwe will, however,
determined by the population of the country.

Tsvangirai on Monday called for the cancellation of the presidential
election. The international community must ensure that the election
would be "null and void," said he said in a telephone interview with
U.S. television network CNN.

Then a new ballot must be held "in a free and fair atmosphere." Mugabe
accuses Western countries to prepare with "lies" an invasion of
Zimbabwe. "Britain and its allies tell many lies about Zimbabwe, for
example, that many people die," Mugabe said, according to the
state-run newspaper "The Herald" on Monday at a campaign rally in
Chipinge. These lies were used to "justify their invasion of
Zimbabwe."