Foreign powers cannot "impose" political or economic solutions on Zimbabwe even though the deepening crisis in the African nation threatens to destabilise its neighbours, a senior Mozambique official said on Friday. "Each time you try to impose a solution from the outside, the results most of the time are not what we like," Henrique Banze, Mozambique's deputy foreign minister, said in an interview with Reuters. "We cannot define a plan for them although we are indirectly affected. They have to design it and come to us," he said. Banze said Mozambique was frustrated with its inability to get Mugabe's government to embrace negotiations with political opponents, but he added that the former Portuguese colony would continue to apply diplomatic pressure on Harare.
