INSTANT VIEW - Tsvangirai becomes Zimbabwe prime minister
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday under a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe.
Following is reaction:
PAUL MOORCRAFT, DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS IN LONDON
"The assumption is that money is going to flow in. It is not. There are a whole lot of benchmarks which are which are tied to EU funds."
"There will be emergency humanitarian aid for cholera but in terms of real change to the economy, money coming, in there will be very little money coming."
"My view is that the MDC is repeating what happened to Joshua Nkomo and his party. I think the MDC is going to be swallowed up. I can understand the MDC, Zimbabwe is in such terrible state but in a sense the MDC has undermined a major American push to put regime change and get rid of Mugabe."
"So it is quite complicated. There was so much pressure for Britain to work with some of AU states, and the Commonwealth. There's a whole group of African experts in Obama's team that was going to put pressure on Mugabe but now that's been stalled. That does not mean money is going to flow. There's a tendency to want to help Tsvangirai, but as long as Mugabe is still there, there can be no effective aid."
LOUIS MICHEL, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN AID
"I welcome today's inauguration of Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. All parties within this power-sharing government must now work -- without delay -- to immediately improve the social and economic conditions for the people of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's journey towards recovery will be long and difficult." Continued...
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