UPDATE 1-Zimbabwe government sets plan to end isolation

Sun Apr 5, 2009 11:30pm BST
 
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* Minister says Zimbabwe to repair EU, U.S. ties

* Steps promised on press freedom

* Plan to repair shattered infrastructure

(Adds justice minister paragraphs 3-4)

By Nelson Banya

HARARE, April 5 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's power-sharing administration will relax media laws and strive in the next 100 days to end the country's international isolation, government ministers said on Sunday.

"Re-engagement of the broader international community including the U.S. and multilateral institutions, will be a priority of the government in the next 100 days," Gorden Moyo, minister of state in the office of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, told Reuters.

Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, a member of President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, said: "A core team of ministers has been set up to spearhead the re-engagement."

The BBC quoted him as saying Zimbabwe was committed to normalising relations with the European Union, Britain, the United States and white Commonwealth nations -- mainly former British colonies which have been Mugabe's harshest critics.  Continued...

 

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